MASP

By Luciano Migliaccio
The sculpture Venus Victorious preceded Petite Venus (height, 60 cm.), the first sculpture produced in 1913 by Richard Guino under the guidance of his master Renoir who had been disabled by arthritis. Here the model was the Venus depicted in The Judgement of Paris, created in that same year. The bronze in the Masp Collection, cast in approximately 1915-1916 by the foundry Rudier, integrates a set of three reproductions. The sculpture in the Masp Collection is marked with number 2; number 1 is at the Petit Palais, of Paris, and number 3 is at the Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, of Rotterdam. Other castings conserved in other museums and private collections are but surmoulages produced after these sculptures (Camesasca, 1979, p. 88). According to P. Haesaerts (1947, p. 18) this is the most finished and complex of all sculptures designed by Renoir.

— Luciano Migliaccio, 1998