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Lot 39
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(French, 1841–1919)
Buste de Madame Renoir, 1916
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$15,000 - 25,000
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(French, 1841–1919)
Buste de Madame Renoir, 1916
Bronze with dark brown patina and green highlights
Stamp signed Renoir (on the model's proper right shoulder verso), also with ALEXIS RUDIER./Fondeur Paris. foundry stamp (on the base verso)
The bronze resting on (and to be sold with) a green marble pedestal.
Height: 25 in. (63.5cm)

According to Madame Corinne Guino, the present work is one of several bronzes cast by Paul Renoir (or his father) and Claude Renoir, also known as 'Coco.' We wish to thank Madame Guino for her assistance in cataloguing the present work.

Literature:
Paul Haesaerts, Renoir: Sculptor, New York, 1947, pp. 30 and 42, no. 18 (the plaster version illustrated, pl. XXXV).
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