Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919) and Richard Guino (French, 1890-1973)
Moyen Forgeron, 1915-16
Original plaster
14 inches (35.6 cm) high
Signed on left of base: Renoir
Published by Vollard, Paris
PROVENANCE:
The Renoir Collection;
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, September 19, 2013, lot 89130;
Private collection, Arizona.
LITERATURE:
P. Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, New York, 1947, p. 31, no. 19, another cast illus.
This sculpture of a young blacksmith, seated on a stone, holding a hammer in his right hand and dipping the iron into a firepot with his left, was executed by Guino on Vollard's order, after a sketch by Renoir and under his direction.
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