Important Pierre-Auguste Renoir circa 1915 signed Terra Cotta Sculpture
Terra cotta "Danseuse au Tambourin" Signed and numbered 7/15 By the famous impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir circa 1915
Sculpture: 23 1/4 x 16 in. (59.1 x 40.6 cm.), Box: 41 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 5 in. (105.4 x 80 x 12.7 cm.)
Other variations of this hand sculpted work are held in museum collections including the Crocker which has another Dancer with Tamborine. From a New York collectors estate. Housed in a Shadow Box. At 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

nice...as regards its authenticity, we have no doubts