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Tête de Coco
Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Tête de Coco
numbered '8/12' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 11¼ in. (28.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1908; this bronze version cast before 1942
Tête de Coco
numbered '8/12' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 11¼ in. (28.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1908; this bronze version cast before 1942
Provenance
Paul Zeitlin, Paris.
Lucy Krogh, Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 10 July 1942 and thence by descent to the present owner.
Lucy Krogh, Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 10 July 1942 and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
J. Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, p. 405 (the plaster version illustrated pl. 406).
P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculpteur, Brussels, 1947 (another cast illustrated pl. IV).
P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculpteur, Brussels, 1947 (another cast illustrated pl. IV).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.