Painting was sold by Vollard in 1930 and has never been publicly exhibited before
A portrait of a child by the French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, once owned by the art Ԁєɑłer Ambroise Vollard, is heading to market at the Paris-based auction house Aguttes on 20 April with an estimate of €450,000-€650,000.
Child sitting in a chair(1895), which Vollard sold to the father of the consignors in 1930, has never been publicly exhibited, though the painting was neither lost nor completely unknown. It is mentioned in Vollard’s 1918 catalogueTableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. “We thought it might be smaller”, says Pierre-Alban Vinquant, the head of Aguttes’s Impressionist and Modern department. “We were expecting a 10cm by 15cm format, in keeping with works that recently єɴԀed up in our hands, but is actually 40cm by 27cm. Neither big nor tiny.”
