Tête de Coco
Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Tête de Coco
stamped with signature, signed 'Renoir' and stamped with foundry mark on the back 'Renoir 6/10 C. Valsuani Cire Perdue'
bronze with brown patina
Height: 11 3/8in. (29cm.)
Conceived in 1908 and cast at a later date
Tête de Coco
stamped with signature, signed 'Renoir' and stamped with foundry mark on the back 'Renoir 6/10 C. Valsuani Cire Perdue'
bronze with brown patina
Height: 11 3/8in. (29cm.)
Conceived in 1908 and cast at a later date
Provenance
Lucien Daufman, Paris (acquired in Paris before 1925 and thence by descent to the present owner)
Literature
J. Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, pl. 406 (plaster version illustrated, p. 402)
P. Haesaerts, Renoir sculpteur, Brussels, 1947, pp. 19-20 (another cast illustrated, pls. IV and XXXVI)
R. E. White, Renoir, His Life, Art and Letters, New York, 1984 (another cast illustrated, p. 235)
P. Haesaerts, Renoir sculpteur, Brussels, 1947, pp. 19-20 (another cast illustrated, pls. IV and XXXVI)
R. E. White, Renoir, His Life, Art and Letters, New York, 1984 (another cast illustrated, p. 235)