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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection Source

2 Lot

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French, 1841–1919

Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

Date: 1881
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100.4 × 80.9 cm (39 1/2 × 31 7/8 in.); Framed: 119.1 × 100.1 × 7.7 cm (46 7/8 × 39 3/8 × 3 in.)
Inscription: Signed and dated lower left
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Estimate £14,000,000 – 20,000,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Evening Sale, 3 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, Paris
By descent within the family to the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, seventh Impressionist exhibition, 1882, no. 141

Literature

Daulte, Renoir: catalogue raisonné, no. 378

Condition

Lined. Colours notably unfaded, the reds retaining their original strength.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

C In the same sale