European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection Tambourine
Dancer IMade in France, Europe Modeled in plaster c. 1918-19;
cast in bronze c. 1918 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French, 1841 -
1919. Modeled by Louis Morelunder Renoir's supervision. Bronze
cast by the foundry C. Valsuani, Paris. 1963-181-101The Louis E.
Stern Collection, 1963 LabelAt the end of his life, Renoir
returned to sculpture, entrusting the modeling to Louis Fernand
Morel, a promising young sculptor. The two artists made three
reliefs together that they later cast in terracotta and bronze.
The motifs of dancers and musicians evoke the carefree spirit of
mythic antiquity that Renoir had long admired in the Roman
frescoes of Pompeii. Social Tags [?]20th century [x] dancer [x]
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