Keywords: Auguste Renoir - Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (ex Whitney collection).jpg Artwork Creator Pierre-Auguste Renoir There are two versions of this painting as well as a largely monochrome study in Copenhagen The larger and better known version is the one in the Musée d'Orsay This is the smaller version held in the Whitney Collection until 1990 when it was sold at Sotheby's New York for the then record price of US 78 million The painting is now believed to be in a Swiss private collection Other than in size the paintings are almost identical one evidently being an exact copy of the other although the Whitney version is executed more freely It is not known which was first exhibited nor even which first painted This scan is from the Sotheby's sale catalogue 17 May 1990 The original was a fold-out with a central crease The left and right portions were scanned separately and then stitched The fold line runs just to the right of the central figure's left cheek A strip 12 pixels wide corresponding to this crease was cropped out The registration of the two pieces is not completely perfect 1876 oil canvas cm 78 114 Institution Private collection object history Victor Chocquet Paris Mme Victor Chocquet sale Paris Galerie Georges Petit July 1 3-4 1899 no 88 sold for 10 500 francs Bernheim-Jeune Paris Prince de Wagram Paris Etienne Bignou Paris Reid and Lefevre London and Knoedler Co New York purchased from the above for £30 706 John Hay Whitney New York acquired from the above on 5 December 1929 Sotheby's sale New York 17 May 1990 acquired by Ryoei Saito for US 78 1 million Private collection Switzerland exhibition history Possibly first exhibited at the 3rd Impressionist group exhibition 1877 one of the two versions was exhibited but it is not known which credit line Signed and dated 76 accession number place of creation Sotheby's sale catalogue 17 May 1990 PD-old-100-1923 1876 <gallery> Auguste Renoir - Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette - Google Art Project jpg Musée d'Orsay version Google Art Project Pierre-Auguste Renoir 084 jpg Copenhagen study </gallery> Uploaded with UploadWizard Bal du moulin de la Galette by Renoir Images from Sotheby's |