Guino - Renoir : La Couleur De La Sculpture

Exhibition at the Musée Hyacinthe Rigaud, Perpignan, 24 June - 5 November 2023

A child prodigy of sculpture, the Catalan artist Richard Guino (1890-1973) enjoyed a long and prolific career in the visual arts, during which he explored materials in all their forms: glass, ceramics, metal, wood, plaster, bronze, paper and paint.

In 1910, he became Aristide Maillol's assistant in Paris, while developing a career of his own. The emulation of Parisian artistic life was a catalyst for creativity for the young artist, who never left the French capital. In 1913, he sold two of his first sculptures to the Moscow collector Ivan Morozov and designed his first large sculpted model.

His virtuoso sculpting skills brought him such attention that he became the sculptor for Auguste Renoir's work. From 1913 to 1917, the two artists entered into a full collaboration at the initiative of Ambroise Vollard, who saw it as a way of extending Renoir's productivity and fame to sculpture, even though the use of his hands compromised this practice. The atypical nature of this association, which combined painting and sculpture, had a decisive impact on Guino's career, and by 1919 he had broadened his interests to include the decorative arts.

This exhibition catalogue provides an opportunity to discover Richard Guino's work in all its artistic dimensions, applied to both statuary and the decorative arts. It brings together over two hundred works and analyses the Catalan artist's artistic career, as well as Renoir's sculptural repertoire, of which Guino is a co-author.