Claude Renoir ("Coco")

1908

Auguste Renoir

Artist, French, 1841 - 1919

Richard Guino

Sculptor, French, born Spain, 1890 - 1973

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bronze

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.4 x 20.4 x 19.4 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.242

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Barbazanges Gallery, Paris); purchased by Francis Crowninshield, New York; sold to Miss Mabel Choate, New York; re-purchased by Francis Crowninshield, New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 20-21 October 1943, 2nd day, no. 202);[1] Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1]See letter from Francis Crowninshield dated 16 October 1944. This states that he bought the bust from the Barbazanges Gallery in Paris, sold to Mabel Choate a few years later, then bought it back and put it in the Parke-Bernet sale a few years after that.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 165, as Coco.

  • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 147, repro.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 188, repro.

Inscriptions

on lower edge to right: Renoir; on back, lower edge: 9/30; on back, lower edge: CIRE / C. VALSUANI /PERDUE

Markings

FM: Valsuani

Wikidata ID

Q63854551

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