171
For this André made at least seven pen drawings showing Renoir from different vantage points; see Girard, Renoir et Albert André, une amitié, p. 25; of two preparatory oil sketches one is now owned by the Musée Albert André de Bagnols-sur-Cèze. He also made several versions in different sizes and degrees of finish: pp. 27–8, 38–40.
172
Dauberville, vol. 3, pl. 2390.
173
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 19 May 1903, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 187.
174
Dauberville, vol. 4, pls 3357, 3028, respectively.
175
White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 227.
176
Renoir to Marguerite Cornillac, n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [14 November 1905], in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 54.
177
Schnerb, ‘Visites à Renoir et à Rodin’, p. 176.
178
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Montreuil, 2 October 1909, private collection.
179
Unpublished, Renoir to Rivière, on reverse Gabrielle to Rivière, n.l., c. 11 January 1908, in Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Fondation Custodia (Collection F. Lugt).
180
Dauberville, vol. 3, pls 2387–9.
181
Jean Renoir, Renoir (1962), pp. 365, 368–9.
182
Renoir to Marguerite Cornillac, Cagnes, 9 April 1903, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 48.
183
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Cagnes, 4 December 1903, private collection.
184
Unpublished, Renoir to André, Cagnes, 8 December 1903, Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Fondation Custodia (Collection F. Lugt).
185
Unpublished, Alain Meunier to Renoir, n.l. [Paris], n.d. [January 1905], private collection.
186
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Paris, 11 April 1908, private collection.
187
Jean Renoir, ‘Pour tout vous dire’, 1958 interview.
188
Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father; French edn, Renoir.
189
Jean Renoir, ‘Pour tout vous dire’.
190
E.g., Renoir to Julie Manet, n.l., January 1896 (Pierrot); Renoir to Aline, n.l., 22 February 1904 (Cloclo), both unpublished, private collection; Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Cagnes, 25 April 1903 (Clo), in Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, p. 101.
191
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Cagnes, 23 November 1903, private collection.
192
E.g., unpublished, Jean Renoir to Renoir, Sisteron, 16 June 1919, private collection.
193
Unpublished, Renoir to Jean Renoir, Cagnes, 10 March 1918, private collection.
194
E.g., unpublished, Renoir to Pierre Renoir, Cagnes, 14 May 1908, private collection.
195
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Cagnes, 9 May 1905, private collection.
196
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Paris], 12 July 1908, private collection.
197
Renoir to unidentified male friend, Cagnes, 12 November 1908, excerpt from Paris, Charavay, November 1959, sale catalogue 702, no. 27.443.
198
Pierre Renoir, interview with Jany Casanova, Paris-Soir, 9 March 1938, quoted in Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 34.
199
Pierre Renoir, interview, ‘En causant avec Monsieur Renoir’, Le Matin, 6 February 1937, quoted in ibid.
200
Renoir to Paul Gallimard, Paris, 28 December 1902, excerpt from Berlin, Stargardt, 3–4 December 1963, sale catalogue 565, no. 761.
201
Unpublished, Renoir to Gallimard, Paris, c. 1903, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
202
Unpublished, Renoir to Albert André, n.l., n.d. [1909–10], in ibid.
203
In 1946, the Conservatoire was split into the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
204
Renoir to Bernheim, Cagnes, 10 May 1906, in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 34, repro. p. 35.
205
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 11 January 1908, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 18.
206
Renoir to Aline, n.l., 22 February 1904, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 222.
207
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 8 December 1903, in ibid., p. 229.
208
Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 36 n. 15.
209
Unpublished, Pierre Renoir to Vollard, Paris, n.d. [c. 1905–10], in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, letter 346.
210
Unpublished, Pierre Renoir to Vollard, Paris, n.d. [c. 1905–10], in ibid.
211
Pierre Renoir, unpublished military record book, 31 May 1906, private collection.
212
Ibid., Paris, 13 June 1906.
213
For Renoir’s military record book see Ch. 1 n. 140 above.
214
Renoir to Misia [Mme Natanson, later Mme Edwards], Paris, 3 July 1906, excerpt from Paris, Librairie de l’Abbaye, c. summer 1975, sale catalogue 215, no. 123.
215
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Paris], 12 July 1908, private collection.
216
Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, pp. 30–31, 483–4.
217
Georges Pioch, review, Comoedia, n.d. [1909], quoted in ibid., pp. 31–2.
218
Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 53.
219
Unpublished, Renoir to Pierre Renoir, n.l., n.d. [c. 10 January 1909], private collection.
220
Paul Paulin, a dentist and sculptor, made several flattering busts of contemporary artists, including Degas, Monet and Pissarro. In 1904, various casts of his Renoir bust appeared in tinted plaster and in bronze; see F. M., ‘Le mois artistique’, pp. 175–6.
221
Unpublished, Renoir to Pierre, n.l., n.d. [c. 1909], private collection.
222
Schnerb, ‘Visites à Renoir et à Rodin’, p. 176.
223
Unpublished receipt, Isaïe [Isaiah] Hébert to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Madré, 2 August 1908, private collection.
224
Unpublished, Vollard to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Cabourg, 11 April 1908, private collection.
225
Unpublished receipt, Hébert to Tréhot Robinet.
226
Unpublished, Renoir to Vollard, Cagnes, 5 May 1908, private collection.
227
Unpublished, Vollard to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Paris, 29 July 1908, private collection.
228
Renoir to Jeanne, Bourbonne-les-Bains, n.d. [August 1908], in Gélineau, Jeanne Tréhot, la fille cachée, pp. 49–50, 52–3 (repro. of letter).
229
Ibid., p. 53.
230
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l., n.d. [c. 10 October 1908], private collection.
231
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Paris, 30 October 1908, private collection.
232
Unpublished, Renoir’s will, Paris, 14 October 1908, private collection; most of the will has been published in Gélineau, Jeanne Tréhot, la fille cachée, p. 51.
233
Unpublished, Renoir to Jean Renoir, Cagnes, 15 September 1914, private collection.
234
See Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 8 February 1909: ‘Monet told me that you think to travel around Italy in May’; Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 11 February 1909: ‘For my trip to Italy, it is not yet certain. I am worried I will drag around in hotels and will get more bad out of it than good. We’ll see’, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel,
vol. 2, pp. 37, 41. The project was first postponed and then abandoned.
235
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [c. February 1909], private collection; part published in Gélineau, Jeanne Tréhot, la fille cachée, p. 55. There is no evidence that Renoir went to Venice or Egypt at that time.
236
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l., n.d. [c. 1908–12], private collection.
237
See Annuaire statistique de la France: résumé rétrospectif 1966 (Paris: INSEE [National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies], 1966), p. 438.
238
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, 1 August 1909, private collection.
239
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l., n.d. [c. 1908–1912], private collection.
240
Ibid.
241
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l., n.d. [c. 10 October 1908], private collection.
242
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [c. 1909], private collection.
243
Gélineau, Jeanne Tréhot, la fille cachée, p. 57
244
Unpublished, Renoir to Georgette Dupuy, n.l., n.d. [1908], private collection.
245
Unpublished, Georgette Dupuy to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l. [Cagnes], 4 May 1909, private collection.
246
Unpublished, Georgette Dupuy to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Paris, n.d. [spring 1909], private collection.
247
Unpublished, Georgette Dupuy to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Paris, n.d. [May 1909], private collection.
248
Unpublished, Georgette Dupuy to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Paris, 15 July 1909, private collection.
249
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Paris, n.d. [c. 14 July 1909], private collection.
250
Unpublished, Georgette Dupuy to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Paris, 23 August 1909, private collection.
251
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l. [Paris], September 1909, private collection.
252
See Le Coeur, ‘Lise Tréhot: portrait d’après nature’, p. 6.
Chapter 6 1910–15
1
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3391, acquired by Durand-Ruel.
2
Ibid., pl. 3455, 120 × 77 cm (47¼ × 30¼ in.). For Watteau’s painting see Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, p. 334, fig. 298.
3
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3465.
4
Renoir had seen this painting of the heir to the Spanish throne during a trip to Madrid in 1892; Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, p. 336, fig. 303.
5
Undated but a 1910 entry in Maurice Denis’s diary notes that Renoir was working on an oil portrait of his wife; Denis, Journal, vol. 2, p. 334 n. 1.
6
Belloni, Pompeian Painting, pl. II. Renoir admired these frescoes in 1881 in the Naples Archaeological Museum.
7
For a 1912 photograph of Renoir, Aline and Coco in Essoyes (see p. 273)
8
Dauberville, vol. 5, pls 4168, 4206.
9
Portrait of Pierre, 44 × 36.5 cm (17⅜ × 14⅜ in.); Frontal Self-Portrait, 47 × 36 cm (18½ × 14⅛ in.); ibid., vol. 4, pls 3397, 3390, respectively.
10
See n. 1 above.
11
Renoir to Renée Rivière, n.l. [Nice], 23 February 1912, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 253.
12
Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1958), pp. 445–56.
13
Renoir to Rivière, Nice, 5 February 1912, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 253.
14
Gabrielle to Vollard, Cagnes, 12 June 1912, excerpt from Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue, 6 June 1976.
15
Unpublished, Aline to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 18 June 1912, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
16
Aline to Durand-Ruel, 21 June 1912, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 112.
17
Dauberville, vol. 1, pp. 72–80.
18
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 25 February 1911, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 78.
19
Aline’s cousin was Paul Parisot; unpublished, Aline to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 11 March 1911, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
20
Unpublished, Mary Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer, Grasse, 21 May [1913], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives.
21
Unpublished, Aline to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 15 October 1913, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
22
For a photograph of Baptistin see Gélineau, ‘La Vie de Jeanne Tréhot, fille d’Auguste Renoir’, p. 19.
23
Sowerwine, France since 1870, p. 107.
24
Bis means the second dwelling in a shared building so that one doorway is 57 [57A] and the next is 57bis [57B]
25
Unpublished, Renoir to unidentified recipient, Cagnes, 24 November 1911, in Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute. At this time, Renoir’s nephew Edmond Renoir Jr was living at Les Collettes.
26
Renoir to unidentified recipient, n.l. [Nice], 21 November 1911, English excerpt in Boston, Mass., Rendell sale catalogue 130, no. 120.
27
Renoir to André, Nice, 16 January 1914, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 58.
28
Unpublished, Renoir to unidentified recipient, Cagnes, 24 November 1911, in Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute.
29
Durand-Ruel to unidentified recipient, n.l., December 1912, in White, Renoir’s Life, Art, and Letters, p. 253. For a photograph of Renoir being carried in his portable chair by André and La Boulangère see White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 241.
30
Unpublished, Cassatt to Havemeyer, Grasse, 27 February [1913], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 11.
31
Ibid., 30 April [1913].
32
Renoir in the 20th Century, p. 105 n. 45. Reinhart collected Renoir’s work and eventually owned seven paintings and several lithographs and bronzes.
33
Ibid., cat. nos 161–72.
34
Cassatt to Havemeyer, Grasse, 4 December [1913], in Cassatt, Cassatt and Her Circle, p. 313.
35
Joseph Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 6 December 1915, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, pp. 162–3.
36
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Vollard, Croissy-sur-Seine, n.d. [26 August 1911], in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
37
Monet to Bernheim-Jeune, Giverny, 28 August 1911, in Wildenstein, Monet: biographie, vol. 4, p. 382. The same day he also wrote of the visit to Durand-Ruel, in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 1, p. 428.
38
Monet to Durand-Ruel, Giverny, 26 June 1913, in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 1, p. 437.
39
LeRoy C. Breunig in Apollinaire, Apollinaire on Art, p. xvii. Apollinaire, review in Le Petit Bleu, 9 February 1912, in ibid., p. 204; French edn, Chroniques d’art (1902–1918), p. 278.
40
Apollinaire, Apollinaire on Art, p. 425.
41
Pach, ‘Pierre-Auguste Renoir’, p. 606. The interview was modified in Pach, Queer Thing, Painting, pp. 104–15.
42
Henry Dauberville (Josse Bernheim-Jeune’s son), repr. in Dauberville, vol. 1, pp. 13–14 (n.d. but before late 1913 when Gabrielle left the Renoirs).
43
Meier-Graefe, Auguste Renoir.
44
André, Renoir.
Monet to Renoir, Giverny, 23 October 1912, in Wildenstein, Monet: biographie, vol. 4, p. 386.
46
Monet, Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil, sold to Bernheim-Jeune in 1912; Terrace at Ste-Addresse, sold to Durand-Ruel in 1913; see Rewald, History of Impressionism, pp. 357, 153, respectively.
47
Renoir, Parisian Lady, sold 1912 to Knoedler Gallery, Paris; Morning Ride in the Bois de Boulogne, 261 × 226 cm (102¾ × 89 in.), sold 1912 to Paul Cassirer; Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 299, 247, respectively.
48
Catalogue des tableaux composant la collection Maurice Gangnat, Paris, 24–25 June 1925.
49
Dr Albert Barnes to Leo Stein, n.l., 30 March 1913, in Lucy and House, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation, p. 21.
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