ID 1334659
Lot 408 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Estimate value
$ 180 000 – 250 000
L'âge d'airain, petit modèle dit aussi "2ème réduction"
signed 'Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis. Rudier Fondeur. Paris' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 25 ¼ in. (64.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1875-1877; this reduction in 1903-1904 and cast in October 1945
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Pierre Mas, Casablanca (acquired from the above, then by descent); sale, Piasa, Paris, 12 December 1996, lot 152.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, London, 23 June 1997, lot 4.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of 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 2008-2318B.
Literature
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 140, no. 35 (large bronze version illustrated, pl. 35).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 21 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 20).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, New York, 1967, pp. 50-52 and 279, nos. 12 and 13 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 53; large bronze version illustrated again in color, p. 51; dated 1877).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 53-54 (large bronze and plaster versions illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 85 (large bronze version illustrated, pls. 6-7).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, p. 115 (another cast illustrated, pls. 4-5).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 19, 23, 30, 32, 42, 66-67 and 342-356, no. 64 (large bronze version illustrated, pp. 343 and 345; large bronze version illustrated again in color, p. 16).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, New York, 1980, p. 157, nos. 2 and 5 (plaster version illustrated).
L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, The Cantor Gift to The Brooklyn Museum, Rodin, Meriden, 1987, pp. 57-58, no. 8 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 56).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, pp. 114-116, no. 95d (large bronze version illustrated, pp. 114-115 and 117).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 37-48, no. 3 (another cast and large bronze versions illustrated, pp. 37-38 and 40).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 121-128 (large bronze versions illustrated).
Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Neoclassicism, Old Masters |
Genre: | Allegory |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Neoclassicism, Old Masters |
Genre: | Allegory |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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