Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR & LOUIS MOREL | JOUEUR DE FLÛTE

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR & LOUIS MOREL

1814 - 1919 and 1887 - 1975

JOUEUR DE FLÛTE

Inscribed Renoir, numbered 15/20 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue

Bronze

24 by 17⅝ in. (61 by 44.8 cm)

Conceived in 1918 and cast in bronze by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris in 1950 in an edition of 20.

Private Collection, Philadelphia (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 1996, lot 425)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paul Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, New York, 1947, no. 24, illustration of the terracotta version pls. XLV & XLVII