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Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Richard Guino
Description
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Richard Guino
- Le Petit Forgeron and La Petite Blanchisseuse: a pair of works
- Le Petit Forgeron inscribed Renoir, numbered 1/6 and stamped with the foundry mark Valsuani cire perdue ; La Petite Blanchisseuse inscribed Renoir
- Bronze, dark brown patina
- Height: 11 in.
- 28 cm
Provenance
Mrs. Charles E. Slatkin (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
P. Haesaerts, Renoir, Sculptor, New York, 1947, p. 42, nos. 19 and 20, pl. XXVIII and XXIX
Renoir, Degas, exhibition catalogue, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1958, nos. 80 and 82, pls. LIV and LVI (the plaste💙r models for these bronzes)
Catalogue Note
Richard Guino executed several versions of these figures under Renoir’s direction in preparation for large-scale statues, though only the Blanchisseuse was produced in a monumental version. The plaster models for these bronzes, commissioned by Vollard in 1916, remained in the possession of Vollard and then his heirs until 🅷Charles E. Slatkin Galle𒉰ries purchased them in the late 1950s.
A small bronze edition was authorized by the heirs of Renoir and of Vollard in December 1958 and was cast by Valsuani before the end of 1966. Though up to 26 casts were authorized⛄, only a small number were actually cast.