ID 717886
Lot 478 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Estimate value
£ 45 000 – 65 000
Pas de deux, étude type G
signed and inscribed 'A. Rodin No 2' (on the right dancer's lifted foot); inscribed with the foundry mark, dated and inscribed '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris. © by musée Rodin 1966' (on the back foot)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
height: 13 5⁄8 in. (34.6 cm.)
Conceived circa 1911; this bronze version cast in 1966
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in June 1967.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1988, lot 315.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 November 1993, lot 14.
Bruton Gallery, London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 12 November 2018, lot 421.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 113.
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London, 1967, p. 251 (the plaster foundry model illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 538 (another cast illustrated).
Post lot text
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 2008-1965B.
Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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