Painting attributed to Renoir - "Le Pont Alexandre III" French Impressionism - View of Paris Start Price USD 100,000.00 Current Price USD 100,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, October 03, 2008 End Time Monday, October 13, 2008 Location Itapetininga, São Paulo See more about 'Painting attributed to Renoir - "Le Pont Alexandre III"' Description Gorgeous painting attributed to Pierre-Auguste Renoir. "Le Pont Alexandre III". Oil on wood, 13cm x 23cm, signed( in our opinion) at the yellow board on the right. It came from a traditional brazilian collection. This painting was analyzed at McCrone Associates from Chicago - USA, with perfect technical results( report avaiable). Don't hesitate to ask for more information. Shipping cost to USA : Free Shipping worlwide :  Free See full description below. Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Le Pont Alexandre III – Paris. This painting, which came from the ancient collection of José Maria Lisboa Junior ( ancient owner of Diario Popular – São Paulo Brazil - and an important art collector at the beginning of the 20th century), is an oil on wood panel, 13cm x 23cm ( 5"1/8 x 9"1/16), and shows the Bridge Alexandre III, boats on the river Seinne and the cupola of the Petit Palais in Paris. The painting was technically analyzed at Mc Crone Associates from Chicago - USA, famous worldwide due the analysis of the Saint Shroud and the Map of Vinland, and the report showed perfect results. The date estimated was end of 19th and beginning of 20th century, which matches perfectly to the historical information. The bridge was inaugurated in 1900 for the Universal Exhibition and, as can be seen in the painting, the boats are still anchored at “Rive Gauche” as they used to stay before the inauguration of the bridge. The “pallete” of the artist was also confirmed as some of very important details of execution which were extremely characteristic of Renoir’s  way of working: The red pigment present all around the painting ( Renoir used to make the sketch of the painting in red color), the bone black pigment used mixed to other colors, the emerald green extensively used and the lead base white present in all the colors of the painting. These are some of the evidences that match the way Renoir used to work as described by Albert Andre, one of Renoir best friends and biographers. And there are many other evidences that we could describe. The stylistic analysis will show the similarity of the painting with some of the most famous paintings from Renoir, as Pont des Arts et L’Institut from Norton Simon and Pont de Chemin de Fer a Chatou, from Musée d’Orsay, among many others that could be described ( picture 3). The X-ray (picture4) analysis shows a painting executed at “one touch” in a perfect, quick and precise way, with no hesitation, in other words, the work of a master (X-ray images can be provided under request). Look at picture 5 and compare some details of execution ( brushstroke and etc.) to other authentic paintings from Renoir This painting was not yet included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Renoir, being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute in Paris only by a lack of documentation as they have stated in a letter to us. The painting remained for five days inside the Institute for the analysis and at the end there was nothing against its high quality. The painting shows at the reverse an address to Lisboa Junior – Diario Popular with an undecipherable signature and a catalogue number “75 n”, which was not possible to be found up to now in our researches. The painting is also signed in the small yellow board in the bottom right corner. ( see picture 2). You can also look at picture 6 and compare the signature to other known signatures of Renoir, extracted from the books by Michel Drucker and Caplan. It´s important to say that the signature of our painting has a length of 1cm when the others are 5 to 10cm long. Take a look at picture 7 and compare the style and the way of execution to a famous painting of Renoir "Le Pont de Chemin de Fer a Chatou" which stays at Musée d'Orsay(Paris). Notice that in the painting "Le Pont de Chemin de Fer a Chatou", Renoir "brings" the bridge closer to the observer( the river banks are too much far than represented in the painting), the same that occurs in "Le Pont Alexandre III". Compare also the angle of the river banks depicted and the execution of the bridge. In both cases, the painter desguised the metalic bridges, which Renoir didn't like so much( he was someway against modern industry), with trees in "Le Pont de Chemin de Fer a Chatou" and the boat in "Le Pont Alexandre III", showing only a part of them.   Important remark about Renoir painting on wood: Few people know that Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who lived from 1841 to 1919, suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis for the last 25 years of his life. At the 13th European congress of rheumatology in Amsterdam in 1995 Mr Paul Renoir, the artist's 70 year old grandson, revealed several previously unpublished aspects of his grandfather's disease.... “........Painting was almost a physical need and sometimes a cure, as if Renoir wanted to create on the canvas those things which he had to miss in real life because of his disability. Even when he woke at night crying in pain, he asked for some painting material and started to make small paintings on wood……” The complete statement with images can be found at the website    http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7123/1704   About values:  Renoir paintings showing views of Paris ( quais de Paris) are very rare and valuable. In 2003, an unknown painting of Renoir, the third smaller version of " La Place de La Trinité", painted in 1893, which was robbed from a beach house in Florida, had an appraisal of  US$ 2,7 million by the insurance company. Despite the small size, " Le Pont Alexandre III " could reach nowadays more than US$ 2 million, once included in the catalogue raisonné. I would like to thank very much to the Wildenstein Institute in Paris for the efforts on trying to find the "lost" documentation of the painting. I am sure it's going to be rediscovered one day.   About my reputation: I am a member from "Mercado Livre" ( www.mercadolivre.com.br   nickname: ruijr2004 ), an affiliate to ebaY in Brazil, since 2004, with 95 qualifications(100% +), mainly on buying and selling fine art, which is our core business.          Only as a reference about the high quality of the Lisboa Junior’s collection we are going to describe below some artists and paintings that were part of it: 1) Lasar Segall – Widow and son(Vaterlos) (1909 ) now at the Museu de Arte Brasileira – FAAP SP; 2) Vicente do Rego Monteiro – Baiana com tabuleiro – also now at the MAB FAAP; 3) Many European masters from neoclassic, romantic, Barbizon and end of 19th century schools, as Henri Langerock, recently sent to auction at Bolsa de Arte do Rio de Janeiro; 4) Many Brazilian masters as Parreiras, Bernardelli, Valle Junior, Amoedo and Benedito Calixto among many others.   Free shipping worldwide.   Place a Bid!