Lot Essay
Cf: P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française, Paris, 1997, p. 506, for an illustration of a numbered example.
This clock is the first model made before the series of fifteen followed, all were numbered, executed by Colin. Richard Guino, an able sculptor and student of Maillol, became the 'hands' of Auguste Renoir between 1913 and 1918, as the Impressionist master was paralysed by this stage.
This clock is the first model made before the series of fifteen followed, all were numbered, executed by Colin. Richard Guino, an able sculptor and student of Maillol, became the 'hands' of Auguste Renoir between 1913 and 1918, as the Impressionist master was paralysed by this stage.