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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Lot 383
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Lot 383 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Iris, messagère des dieux, étude sans tête, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the left foot); dated and inscribed ‘© by musée Rodin 1960’ (on the left calf); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier..Fondeur. Paris.' (on the right foot)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 17 ¼ in. (43.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1890-1891; this bronze version cast in 1960




Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Alexander Dobkin, New York (acquired from the above, August 1967).
By descent from above to 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 2009-3000B.



Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 68, no. 171 (another cast illustrated).
M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 50 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin Sculptures, New York, 1952, p. 50 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 151 and 181 (another cast illustrated, p. 185).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 103 (another cast illustrated, pl. 77).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 288, 290-291 (another cast illustrated, fig. 46-3).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, pp. 96, 178 and 186 (another cast illustrated, pl. 95).
A.E. Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp. 111, 123, 335, no. 5.13 (another cast illustrated, p. 111).
C. Lampert, Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London, 1986, pp. 121-123 and 221, no. 143 (another cast illustrated, p. 221 and on the cover page).
R. Butler, J.P. Plottel and J.M. Roos, eds., Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986, pp. 99-100 and 118 (another cast illustrated, fig 61).
J.M. Roos, "Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo: Art and Politics in the Third Republic" in The Art Bulletin, vol. 68, no. 4, December 1986, pp. 650-651, 654-656 (another cast illustrated, p. 656, fig. 24).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 454 (another cast illustrated, fig. 1).
Artist:François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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