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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Lot 333
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Lot 333 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
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$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Adam, taille originale dit aussi "Grand modèle"
signed ‘A. Rodin’ (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark ‘Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.’ (on the back of the base); inscribed and dated ‘© by musée Rodin 1973’ (on the right side of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 77 ½ in. (197 cm.)
Conceived in 1880; this bronze version cast in 1973




Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, December 1973.

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 2000-1313B.



Literature

T.H. Bartlett, "Auguste Rodin-V" in The American Architect and Building News, vol. XXV, no. 698, 9 May 1889, p. 113 (titled The Creation of Man).
F. Lawton, François-Auguste Rodin, New York, 1908, pp. 51-52 (titled Creation of Man).
C. Maulclair, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1918, p. 13 (plaster version illustrated; illustrated again in situ, p. 38).
L. Bénédite, Catalogue sommaire des oeuvres d’Auguste Rodin et autres oeuvres d’art de la donation Rodin, Paris, 1926, no. 172 (titled La création de l'homme ou Adam).
A.M. Ludovici, Personal Reminiscences of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1926, pp. 17-18.
J. Claudel, Rodin, sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 135-136.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Museé Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 21, no. 47 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 49, 188 and 192 (another cast illustrated, p. 51).
R. Descharnes and J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 98 (plaster version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 87 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 18).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 122-126, no. 4 (another cast illustrated, pp. 123-124).
Musée Rodin, ed., Correspondance de Rodin, Paris, 1985, vol. I, pp. 53 and 119.
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 152, no. 114 (another cast illustrated, p. 153).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 115, no. S. 1303 (other casts illustrated, pp. 84 and 114-115).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, New York, 2014, p. 95, no. 85 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 94).
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