Details
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR and RICHARD GUINO
Le forgeron (Le feu)
signed on the side of the base Renoir--numbered and stamped on the back of the base 1/C C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE--bronze with brown patina Height: 11 in. (28 cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1916; this bronze version cast at a later date
Le forgeron (Le feu)
signed on the side of the base Renoir--numbered and stamped on the back of the base 1/C C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE--bronze with brown patina Height: 11 in. (28 cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1916; this bronze version cast at a later date
Literature
A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1918, vol. I, nos. 446 and 447 (plaster version illustrated, p. 112) J. Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, nos. 409 and 410 (another cast illustrated, pp. 406 and 407) P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, New York, 1947, p. 42 no. 19 (another cast illustrated, pl. XXVIII)