Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower right): Renoir.
Gallery Label In 1907 Renoir purchased the estate of Les Collettes at Cagnes on the Mediterranean near Nice. He moved there in autumn 1908. The estate, with its picturesque farmhouse, its groves of olive and orange trees, and the views it afforded of the hilly countryside, provided the artist with major motifs for his late landscapes. This painting, executed in a fluid manner and suffused by the bright light of southern France, is one of several representations of the farm framed by olive trees painted between 1908 and 1914. Renoir's use of trees as a visual screen recalls Cézanne's method of integrating foreground and background space.
Provenance [Jos Hessel, until 1937, sold in February to Durand-Ruel]; [Durand-Ruel, New York, 1937; stock no. NY 5338, sold July 12 for $10,000 to Abrams]; Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Abrams, Old Lyme, Conn. (from 1937–his d. 1941); Charlotte Gina (Mrs. Lucien) Abrams, Old Lyme, Conn. (1941–until d. 1961)
Exhibition History Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Five Centuries of European Painting," May 16–October 26, 1963, unnumbered cat. (as "The Artist's House at Cannes" [sic] [p. 45]).
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. "Landscape Painting in the East and West," April 19–June 1, 1986, no. 16 (as "The Artist's House at Cagnes").
Kobe City Museum. "Landscape Painting in the East and West," June 7–July 13, 1986, no. 16.
Portland Museum of Art. "Impressions of the Riviera," June 25–October 18, 1998, no. 63 (as "The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes").
Von der Heydt–Museum Wuppertal. "Auguste Renoir und die Landschaft des Impressionismus," October 28, 2007–January 27, 2008, unnumbered cat. (as "The Farm at Les Collettes") (p. 135).
References Julius Meier-Graefe. Renoir . Leipzig, 1929, pp. 291, 355, fig. 323.Renoir: His Life and Work . first American ed. 1962. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1961, p. 247, ill.in Impressions of the Riviera . Exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art. Portland, Maine, 1998, pp. 25, 79, no. 63, fig. 13 (color).in Lin Arison and Neil Folberg. Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists: Discovering the Connections . New York, 2007, ill. pp. 110, 263 (color).
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