Lot 2228: Pierre Auguste Renoir 1900 "Richard Wagner"

A rare opportunity to acquire a period work by one of the best known and most highly regarded figures from the history of art. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919), captures the composer Richard Wagner in a powerful, period memorial portrait completed about the time of Wagner's death in 1883. The work is represented as Number 33 in Loys Delteil Catalogue Raisonne Renoir's Etchings and Lithographs, the edition is limited to 100 images. The condition is NM. The image size is 17" x 13" and with matting measures 30" x 24".