PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE GEORGE GREGSON
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Louis Morel
Le joueur de flûte
Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Louis Morel
Le joueur de flûte
signed and numbered 'Renoir 17/20' (lower right), stamped with the foundry mark 'C. Valsuani cire perdue' (on the bottom)
bronze with a black patina
23¾ x 17 in. (60.3 x 43.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1918 by Renoir and produced in plaster with the collaboration of the sculptor Louis Morel. Cast in an edition of twenty in 1950 by Renoir and Colle, Paris.
Le joueur de flûte
signed and numbered 'Renoir 17/20' (lower right), stamped with the foundry mark 'C. Valsuani cire perdue' (on the bottom)
bronze with a black patina
23¾ x 17 in. (60.3 x 43.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1918 by Renoir and produced in plaster with the collaboration of the sculptor Louis Morel. Cast in an edition of twenty in 1950 by Renoir and Colle, Paris.
Provenance
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 March 1968, lot 57.
Galerie Urban, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale and from whom purchased by George Gregson in 1968.
Galerie Urban, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale and from whom purchased by George Gregson in 1968.
Literature
P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculpteur, Paris, 1947 no. 24 (illustrated pl.XLVII)
Exhibited
Arizona, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, The George Gregson Collection, Jan.-March 1969.