AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508131
Lot 425 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Estimate value
180000USD $ 180 000 – 250 000
Torse de la Grande Ombre
signed, dated, numbered, inscribed with foundry mark and inscribed 'A. Rodin No 8/8 E. GODARD FONDEUR © BY MUSÉE Rodin 2003' (along the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 39 in. (100.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1900 and cast in 2003
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003.
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 2025-8001B.
Literature
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 1997, vol. II, p. 568 (another version illustrated).
| Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| 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: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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