Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Louis Morel

(French, 1841-1919)

La Danseuse au Tambourin (I); together with Joueur de Flûte (II) | A Pair (2)

bronze with dark brown patina

La Danseuse au Tambourin (I): inscribed Renoir and numbered 15/20 (lower left)

Joueur de Flûte (II): inscribed Renoir and numbered 4/20 (lower right)

Each with the C. Valsuani Cire Perdue foundry mark.

Each conceived in 1918 and cast in bronze in 1950.

larger: height: 24 in. (61cm)

Property of a Family Collection, New York.

Provenance:

Christie's, London, sale of June 30, 1999, lot 201.

Acquired directly from the above sale.

Private Collection, San Francisco.

Sotheby's, New York, sale of February 15, 2007, lot 17.

Acquired directly from the above sale.

Collection of Marjorie S. Fisher, Palm Beach, Florida.

Sotheby's, New York, May 17, 2017, lot 276.

Acquired directly from the above sale by the present owner.

Literature:

Paul Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1947, nos. 22 & 24 (illustrations of the terracotta versions plates XLIV, XLV & XLVII).

La Danseuse au Tambourin (I); together with Joueur de Flûte (II) | A Pair (2)

La Danseuse au Tambourin (I); together with Joueur de Flûte (II) | A Pair (2)