Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Richard Guino (1890-1973) - Lot 119

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Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Richard Guino (1890-1973) - Lot 119
Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and Richard Guino (1890-1973) Little Venus Model created in 1913; published by Ambroise Vollard; our example cast by Florentin Godard between 1923 and 1924 Bronze with shaded brown patina Signed "Renoir". Numbered "VIIII H. 60.5 x W. 31.7 x D. 22 cm Exhibition : -Guino, Renoir, : la couleur de la sculpture, Perpignan, musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, June 24-November 5, 2023, no. 61. Related works: -Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Petite Vénus sur son socle, 1913, foundry plaster and shellac, signed "Renoir", H. 60 x W. 29 x D. 19 cm, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Musée Renoir; -Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Petite Vénus debout, bronze, signed "Renoir", H. 59.5 cm, Witerthur, Kunstmuseum, inv. KV 432 ; -Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Richard Guino, Judgement of Paris, 1914, high relief in patinated plaster, signed "Renoir 1914", H. 76.2 x W. 94.2 x D. 10 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, inv. RF 2745. Exhibition: Guino, Renoir, : la couleur de la sculpture, Perpignan, musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, June 24-November 5, 2023, no. 61 Related works: - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Petite Vénus sur son socle, 1913, fon-derie plaster and shellac, signed "Renoir", H. 60 x W. 29 x D. 19 cm, Cagnes-sur-Mer, Musée Renoir; - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Petite Vénus debout, bronze, signed "Renoir", H. 59.5 cm, Witerthur, Kunstmuseum, inv. KV 432 ; - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Richard Guino, Judgement of Paris, 1914, high relief in patinated plaster, signed "Renoir 1914", H. 76.2 x W. 94.2 x D. 10 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, inv. RF 2745. Bibliography Pascale Picard-Cajan, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Guino, Renoir: la couleur de la sculpture, cat. exp. Perpignan, Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, June 24-November 5, 2023, Milan, Silvana editoriale, 2023, work listed under no. 61, p. 116, pp. 94-100, pp. 116-118 and pp. 122-123. In the spring of 1913, at the very beginning of their collaboration, the painter Auguste Renoir commissioned Richard Guino to transpose his 1908 painting Le Jugement de Pâris into a sculpture. Renoir made preparatory drawings and painted a second version, in which Venus, receiving the apple offered by Pâris, straightens up. Based on this second version, the young sculptor created a bas-relief, cast in bronze by Florentin Godard. This bas-relief was intended to adorn the base of a figure in the round of Venus. Guino models a terracotta depicting Venus triumphant, apple in hand, in a slight contrapposto, trampling the cloak she is taking off at her feet. At Ambroise Vollard's suggestion, the first bronze proofs of this model were cast by the Florentin Godard foundry at the end of May 1913. According to the archives of the Vollard collection at the Musée d'Orsay, our proof, bearing the number "VIIII", was cast between 1923 and 1924. As early as 1914, in order to get closer to the Roman Antiques he so admired, Renoir planned to enlarge the figure of Venus. Guino produced two versions, the first of which was exhibited in bronze in 1916 at the Triennale du Jeu de Paume. We would like to thank Madame Adélaïde Paul-Dubois-Taine of the Socié-té Civile Succession Richard Guino for her help in drafting this notice.
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