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Corinne Guino has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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Buste de Madame Renoir
Details
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Richard Guino (1890-1973)
Buste de Madame Renoir
signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Renoir 7/20 C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 23 ¼ in. (59.2 cm.)
Length: 19 7/8 in. (51.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1916; this bronze version cast circa 1960
Buste de Madame Renoir
signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Renoir 7/20 C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 23 ¼ in. (59.2 cm.)
Length: 19 7/8 in. (51.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1916; this bronze version cast circa 1960
Provenance
Galerie de l'Elysée (Alex Maguy), Paris.
O. Roy Chalk, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above, circa 1963).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
O. Roy Chalk, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above, circa 1963).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
P. Haesaerts, Renoir, Sculptor, New York, 1947, pp. 30 and 42, no. 18 (detail of plaster version illustrated, pl. XXXV).
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