Details
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) and RICHARD GUINO (1890-1973)
Le feu (Le petit forgeron accroupi)
signed on the right side of the base Renoir, stamped on the back of the base C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE--bronze with black patina Height: 13in. (33cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1916; this bronze version cast at a later date
Le feu (Le petit forgeron accroupi)
signed on the right side of the base Renoir, stamped on the back of the base C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE--bronze with black patina Height: 13in. (33cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1916; this bronze version cast at a later date
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, June 23, 1965, lot 124
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., La Coquille Club, Manalapan, Florida, March 25, 1980, lot 232 (acquired by the present owner)
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., La Coquille Club, Manalapan, Florida, March 25, 1980, lot 232 (acquired by the present owner)
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, pl. XXVIII)
P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, New York, 1947, p. 42, no. 19 (another cast illustrated, pl. XXVII)
J. Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, nos. 409 and 410 (another cast illustrated, pl. XXVIII)
P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, New York, 1947, p. 42, no. 19 (another cast illustrated, pl. XXVII)