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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

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Lot 229 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

L'un des Bourgeois de Calais, Jean d'Aire vêtu, réduction

signed 'A. Rodin' (at the bottom of his cape) and stamped with the foundry mark 'Alexis.Rudier Fondeur.PARIS' (on the side of the base); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)

bronze with black-brown patina

height: 18 5⁄8 in. (47.2 cm.)

Conceived between 1887 and 1895, and cast in bronze by Alexis Rudier, Paris, in 1945





Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.

Galerie Cziwiklitzer, Cologne, by whom acquired in November 1955.

Private collection, Cologne, and thence by descent.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.



This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2022-6738B.



Literature

M. Rainer Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1928.

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 376-402.

A.E. Elsen, Dans l’atelier de Rodin, historique photographique de la sculpture dans le processus de la création, Oxford, 1980.

A. Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988.

A. Haudiquet & A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, les Bourgeois de Calais, Paris, 2001.

A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art : The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Oxford, 2003, no. 19, p.111, (another cast illustrated).

A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze, catalogue des œuvres conservées au musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, nos. S.422, p. 220 (another cast illustrated).
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