Modern, Post-War, Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 7 - 8 November 2021
Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 140 000 - 160 000
About this Item
French/Spanish 19th/20th Century
Le Petit Forgeron (The Little Blacksmith)
signed by Renoir, numbered 1/6 and stamped with the Valusani Cire Perdue foundry mark
bronze with a dark brown patina on a painted wooden base
height: 35cm including base; length: 27cm; width: 15cm
Notes
French art dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned several sculptures from artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1916. Richard Guino made plaster maquettes according to Renoir's instructions but an edition was never cast during the artist's lifetime. In 1958, the heirs of Renoir and Vollard authorised an edition and it was cast by La Fonderie Valsuani, Paris, in 1966.
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