Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, Origina Lithograph, 1908 Start Price USD 10,000.00 Current Price USD 10,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, June 30, 2008 End Time Thursday, July 10, 2008 Location Masterworks Fine Art, Oakland Hills, CA See more about 'Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, Origina Lithograph, 1908' Description --> home current inventory search art knowledge art commentary buy art about us contact us Artist: Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841 - 1919)Title: Claude Renoir, de Trois-Quarts à Droite (Claude Renoir, Three-Quarters to the Right), 1908Medium: Original EtchingImage Size: 6 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in (16.5 cm x 13.3 cm)Sheet Size: 8 5/8 in x 7 1/4 in (21.9 cm x 18.4 cm)Framed Size: 27 1/2 in x 23 1/2 in (69.9 cm x 59.7 cm)Edition: Numbered 55/100 in pencil in the lower left margin. From the second state in black and white before the cancelled plate featuring a plate mark all around with wide marginsCondition: This work is in very good condition, a wonderful, elaborate impression  Description:Turning frequently to his family for inspiration, this intimate image is a notional rendering of the artist's youngest son, Claude, who frequently served as one of Renoir’s favored subjects. Executed in a gestural fashion, the artist manipulates light and form to capture the jubilant contours of the child's face. Created in 1908, this original etching is from the second state in black and white before the cancelled plate.  Numbered 55/100 in pencil in the lower left margin, this work was printed on fine, laid paper with wide margins and a faint plate mark all around. Claude Renoir, son of the artist, was born in 1901 when Pierre-Auguste Renoir was already 60 years of age. Michel Ferloni and Dominique Spies state, "it must have been a great joy for the nearly helpless Renoir to follow the smile or the games of this marvelous little being with chubby cheeks, still free as the air and bouncing with life, who was his son" (Ferloni, 56). This sense of fascination with his son is evident in the artist's delicate rendering of the petit nose and delicate lips. The child appears to be studying something just beyond the picture plane with an intent glare of childish curiosity. Catalogue Raisonné & COA:It is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work):    1. Delteil, L. (1999). Pierre-Auguste Renoir, L’œuvre grave et lithographié, Catalogue Raisonné. Hyman, A. (Ed.). Alan Wofsy Fine Arts: San Francisco. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 18 on pgs. 36-7.    2. Stella, J.G. 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