ID 1209945
Lot 719 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
Rodin, A.
L'Ombre, taille originale dite taille de la Porte
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the left side of the base); inscribed and dated '© by Musée Rodin 1956' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 37 5/8 in. (95.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1880 and cast in 1956
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above, February 1956).
Private collection, United Kingdom.
Bruton Gallery, Somerset.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1985.
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 2018-5861B.
Literature
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 133, no. 5-1 (another cast illustrated, pp. 131-132).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 564 (other versions illustrated, pp. 564-569, 571 and 573; plaster versions illustrated, pp. 570 and 572).
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