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Le petit foregeron (Le feu)
Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Richard Guino (1890-1973)
Le petit foregeron (Le feu)
stamped with signature and numbered 'Renoir No. 2' (on the right side of base) and stamped with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur. Paris. (on the back of base)
bronze with black and green patina
Length: 12½ in. (31.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1916; this bronze version cast at a later date
Le petit foregeron (Le feu)
stamped with signature and numbered 'Renoir No. 2' (on the right side of base) and stamped with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur. Paris. (on the back of base)
bronze with black and green patina
Length: 12½ in. (31.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1916; this bronze version cast at a later date
Provenance
Rudier Family and Estate, Paris (until 1954).
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1955.
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1955.
Literature
P. Haesaerts, Renoir, Sculptor, New York, 1947, p. 42, no.19 (plaster version and another cast illustrated, pls. XXVII and XLIII; titled Fire or Small Blacksmith).
Special notice
This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.