Label TextGroup label with 2005.1.158 & 159:
In the last decade of his life, the renowned Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir collaborated with several young sculptors, including Richard Guino and Louis Morel, to produce sculptures based on his drawings. The clock is an allegory celebrating the continuity of life, as a nude man and woman render homage to a torch-bearing child, a symbol of future generations. The dancer and flute player were inspired by ecstatic figures Renoir had admired in ancient Roman paintings from Pompeii. Guino and Morel created plaster models for these works during Renoir’s lifetime, and they were first cast in bronze in the 1950s. (J. Powers, 2021)