Lot 4
  • 4

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Richard Guino (1890-1973)

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Richard Guino (1890-1973)
  • La Maternité
  • inscribed Renoir and stamped with foundry mark fonte Taube Paris
  • bronze, brown-green patina
  • Height: 21 in.
  • 53.3 cm.
  • Conceived in 1916 and cast in 1981.

Provenance

Madame Veuve Richard Guino (artist's wife), Paris
Façade Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984

Literature

Ann Dumas and John Collins, Renoir's Women, Columbus Museum of Art, 2005, illustration of another cast p. 6, fig. 45

Condition

Some surface dust in crevasses, minor verdigris in crevasses.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Michel Guino.