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Tête de Coco
Details
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Tête de Coco
signed with the initial and numbered 'R 3/12.' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1908
red-painted Ford Inventory No. C-20 to base
Tête de Coco
signed with the initial and numbered 'R 3/12.' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1908
red-painted Ford Inventory No. C-20 to base
Provenance
Galerie Zak, Paris.
Knoedler & Co., New York (no. A6470), by whom acquired from the above in September 1956.
Mr Henry Ford II, Grosse Pointe Farms, Palm Beach & London, by whom acquired from the above on 21 January 1957, and thence by descent.
Knoedler & Co., New York (no. A6470), by whom acquired from the above in September 1956.
Mr Henry Ford II, Grosse Pointe Farms, Palm Beach & London, by whom acquired from the above on 21 January 1957, and thence by descent.
Literature
J. Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, no. 406, p. 448 (titled 'Coco'; the plaster version illustrated p. 402).
P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculpteur, Brussels, 1947, pp. 19-20 & n.p. (titled 'Buste de Coco'; another cast illustrated pls. IV & XXXVI).
P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculpteur, Brussels, 1947, pp. 19-20 & n.p. (titled 'Buste de Coco'; another cast illustrated pls. IV & XXXVI).
