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Navy
Lost Art-ID
630017
Artist / Creator
Renoir, Auguste
Birth
1841.02.25, Limoges
Death
1919.12.02, Cagnes
Place of activity
Paris; Essoyes
Title
Navy
Dating
1879/1880
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
50.50 cm
Width
61.50 cm
Inventory number
2634
Description
inscribed lower left on recto: Renoir; verso upper left in graphite pencil: 46 [underlined]; upper right white four-part perforated stamp with blue overprint, on it round Swiss customs stamp in black: ZOLL / [?] 26; upper right engraved: 11; on stretcher upper centre white label: Dr. F. N. / St. G. / LC [C crossed out] No. 344 [Fritz Nathan, St. Gallen]; centre cross-stamp in blue: D 1510 [underlined with arrow to the left]
Provenance
Whereabouts unknown
probably, undated - 8.4.1941, Raphael Gérard (*1886, +1963) (art dealer), Paris
probably, 18.4.1941 - undated, Hein, purchase, 250'000.00 FRF
[whereabouts unknown?]
Roger Dequoy (*1893) (art dealer), Paris
Galerie Wildenstein (gallery), Paris
probably, Carl Montag (*1880 Winterthur, +1956 Meudon) (intermediary), Paris
n.d. - 1943, Theodor Fischer (*1878 Lucerne, +1957) (art dealer), Paris/Lucerne, purchase
1943, Fritz Nathan (*1895 Munich, +1972 Zurich) (art dealer), St. Gallen
from 1943, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, purchase
The provenance between 1933 and 1945 has not been clearly clarified or has gaps. The available research does not provide any evidence of Nazi-looted art. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. The provenance must be investigated further.
Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link
Literature / Source
Guy-Patrice Dauberville/Michel Dauberville: Renoir. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles 1858-1881, Bd. 1, Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 2007, S. 12, Nr. 153.
Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 240.
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