FRENCH SCULPTURE CENSUS / RÉPERTOIRE DE SCULPTURE FRANÇAISE MAILLOL, Aristide Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales 1861 - Banyuls-sur- Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales 1944 Auguste Renoir Auguste Renoir probably modeled in 1906 or 1907, probably cast about 1907 bronze bust 7 1 15 ?8 x 9 ?2; weight: 22,3 lb signed, incised on underside of the base: M [within circle, the sculptor's monogram] mark on the underside of the base, raised: D Acc. No.: 53.140.8 Credit Line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, in memory of Cornelius J. Sullivan Photo credit: www.metmuseum.org © Artist : New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org Provenance ?-1939, New York, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan 1939-1951, New York, The Museum of Modern Art 1951, Edith Perry Chapman Fund, acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, in memory of Cornelius J. Sullivan Bibliography 1966 Vincent Clare Vincent, "In search of a likeness: some European portrait sculpture", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 24, 1966 (April), cover, p. 254-255, fig. 14-16 Exhibitions 1939 New York Art in our time, An Exhibition to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art and the opening of its New Building, New York, Museum of Modern Art, May 10-September 30, 1939, no. 264 1939 Boston Despiau-Maillol, Boston, Institute of Modern Art, January-February 1939 1940 New York Buchholz Gallery, New York, 1940, no. 10 1941 New York Lehmbruck-Maillol, New York, Buchholz Gallery, 1941, no. 27 1942 New York Twentieth Century Portraits, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 39, 140, ill. 1945 Buffalo Aristide Maillol, Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, 1945, p. 74, 106 2007 Berlin French Masterpieces of the 19th century from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 31 May-7 October, 2007, unnumbered cat. 2009-2010 Philadelphia/Paris/Los Angeles Renoir in the 20th Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 17-September 6, 2009; Paris, Grand Palais, September 23, 2009-January 4, 2010; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 14- May 9, 2010, cat. 117 Related works Other bronze examples: - Cagnes-sur-Mer, Musée Renoir - Chicago, Art Institute - Munich, Neue Staatsgalerie - New York, Marc Chagall (in 1944) - New York, John A. Dunbar (in 1945) - New York, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Liebman (in 1945) - Princeton, Mrs. Marquand Forsyth (in 1945).