Auguste Renoir, Richard Guino
Venus Victorious
Auguste Renoir
Limoges 1841 – Cagnes-sur-Mer 1919
Richard Guino
Gerona, Spain, 1890 – Antony, France, 1973
Venus Victorious
About 1914
Bronze
85.1 x 30 x 24 cm
Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest, inv. 1960.1280
Western Art
In April 1913, at the urging of French art dealer Ambroise Vollard, a surprising collaboration – an artistic communion, one might say – arose between the elderly painter Auguste Renoir and the young sculptor Richard Guino. Guino was to model sculptures based on Renoir’s drawings or paintings. Renoir’s painting Judgment of Paris, exalting the most beautiful goddesses, has been recreated in high relief with the central figure, featured solo, becoming Venus Victorious holding the apple given to her by the shepherd Paris.
© Estate of Richard Guino / SOCAN (2024)
