Stolen Art DealerOil painting of a winding stony road with women and children walking between seaside cottages, a flower garden on the left and the sea behind.
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Catalogue No. 1319 · Christie's · New York
La route à Wargemont
About $5.9 million in today’s money: 67 years of the typical US household’s income. Source
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Title
- La route à Wargemont
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 54.7 x 65.7 cm (21 1/2 x 25 7/8 in)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted La route à Wargemont in 1879, near Paul Bérard's Château de Wargemont in Normandy. It is an oil on canvas, 54.7 by 65.7 centimetres, signed and dated 'Renoir. 79.' A winding stony road runs through the foreground, with women and children walking down it between seaside cottages. Red, pink and white flowers fill the garden on the left, and the blue-green sea lies under a pale sky behind.
The collector Jules Feder of Paris owned it first. Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris acquired it from him on 25 June 1892, and the firm's New York gallery acquired it in March 1897. The dealer Sam Salz of New York acquired it on 30 December 1941. After Wildenstein and Company, also in New York, it was bought in 1946 by the late owner.
Christie's sold the painting in New York on 11 November 2021, as lot 54C of the 20th Century Evening Sale, against an estimate of $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. The price realised was $4,830,000, which Christie's states is the hammer price plus the buyer's premium.
The sale
- Auction house
- Christie's, New York
- Date
- 11 November 2021
- Lot
- 54C
- Estimate
- $3,000,000–5,000,000
- Sold for
- $4.8 million (including buyer’s premium) · $4,830,000
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Provenance
1879
Painted by Renoir near Paul Bérard's Château de Wargemont, Normandy; signed and dated 'Renoir. 79.'
undated
Jules Feder, Paris
1892-06-25
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above)
1897-03
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)
1941-12-30
Sam Salz, New York (acquired from the above)
undated
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York
1946
Acquired from the above by the late owner
2021-11-11
Christie's, New York, 20th Century Evening Sale, lot 54C
Sources
- Christie's: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La route à Wargemont (lot page, English)
- Christie's: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La route à Wargemont (lot page, Chinese, shows price realised and sale date)
- Sotheby's: 34. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (top 10 results 2018 to H1 2023)
Prices include the buyer’s premium, in US dollars at the time of sale, unless marked as a hammer price.