PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) AND RICHARD GUINO (1890-1973) - photo 1

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) AND RICHARD GUINO (1890-1973)

Lot 499
04.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 717817
Lot 499 | PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) AND RICHARD GUINO (1890-1973)
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£ 250 000 – 350 000
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) AND RICHARD GUINO (1890-1973)

La grande laveuse accroupie

signed 'Renoir' (on the left side on top of the base) and stamped with the foundry mark 'F. GODARD.FONDEUR' (on the top of the back of the base)

bronze with dark brown patina

height: 47 5⁄8 in. (123 cm.)

width: 29 1⁄2 in. (75 cm.)

depth: 50 3⁄4 in. (129 cm.)

Conceived in 1917; this bronze version cast by Godard before 1950







Provenance

Gottfried Tanner, Zurich.

Werner & Nelly Bär, Zurich, by whom acquired in 1950, and thence by descent to the present owner.





Literature

W. George, 'L'Œuvre Sculpté de Renoir', in L’Amour de l’Art, vol. 8, August 1924, p. 332 (another cast illustrated pp. 329 & 332; titled 'Baigneuse accroupie').

J. Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Leipzig, 1928, no. 411, pp. 395-396 & 448 (another cast illustrated pl. 408).

U.E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, Editeur, New York, 1944, no. 160, pp. 134 & 195 (dated '1916').

P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, New York, 1947, no. 21, pp. 31 & 42 (another cast illustrated pls. XXXVIII-XLII).

A.C. Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, New York, 1955 (another cast illustrated pl. 63).

A.H. Barr, ed., Masters of Modern Art, New York, 1958, p. 40 (another cast illustrated p. 41).

J. Selz, Modern Sculpture, New York, 1963, p. 188 (another cast illustrated fig. 152).

R. Wehrli, ed., Sammlung Werner und Nelly Bär, Zurich, 1965, p. 258 (illustrated pl. 185).





Exhibited

Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Die Plastiksammlung Werner Bär, September - November 1951, no. 71, p. 14.

Varese, Villa Mirabello, 2a Rassegna internazionale di scultura all'aperto, August - September 1953, no. 129.

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Werner Bär Plastik, Kurt Sponagel Graphik, August - September 1959, no. 82, p. 20 (illustrated pl. 5); this exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunstmuseum, September - November 1959.





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