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RENOIR-Two Generations Pierre-Auguste, 1841-1919 Venus à la Pomme, 1913 Bronze sculpture. Signed and numbered ‘A.P. 30/30’ on the base. #700039 33 x 13” 4 Dancer with a Veil (Danseuse au Voile), 1918 Bronze sculpture. This is a posthumous work published by House of Renoir. Edition number four of nine. This sculpture was produced from the original plaster mold. #909207 25 3/8 x 18 3/4”
A counterproof is created when a damp sheet of paper is placed over a chalk or pastel drawing and pressure is applied by hand-rubbing. The hazier, impressionistic appearance of the resulting counterproof can be precisely the result that the artist was seeking. However, the artists can retouch the counterproof with additional lines or shading, should it need rejuvenation, so that the counterproof—the same image in reverse—can be made faithful to the original drawing. This process was employed extensively in the 18th century by such artists as François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who used it to make multiples of their chalk drawings. In the late 19th century the fresh and airy hues of pastel appealed to Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. These artists produced an important oeuvre in pastels and their counterproofs. While Degas’s counterproofs have been known and cherished for almost a century, Renoir’s, commissioned by his dealer Ambroise Vollard, remained unsold and virtually unknown until recent years. Some 30 of them surfaced in the Estate of Henri M. Petiet, the legendary Paris dealer who bought them from Vollard in 1939 and kept them out of sight in a drawer until his death in 1980. Baigneuse s’essuyant, c. 1900 Pastel counterproof on tissue-thin Japan paper mounted on sturdy wove paper. Counterproof monogram lower left. Provenance: Ambroise Vollard, the artist’s dealer; the Estate of Henri M. Petiet, Paris. Vollard 1226. #401914 22 1/2 x 18 3/8” RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste, 1841-1919 5
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