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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Lot 54
28.02.2023 14:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 1 500 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 908058
Lot 54 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Estimate value
£ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Eve au rocher, petit modèle–modèle aux pieds détaillés

signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side of the base)

bronze with brown patina

Height: 29 3/8 in. (74.5 cm.)

Conceived in 1883 and cast circa 1900





Provenance

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 June 1972, lot 97.

Dominique Jobert, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Galerie J. F. Aittouarès, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.

Robert Bowman Gallery, London, by whom acquired from the above in 1998.

Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 6 November 2002, lot 7.

Private collection, United States, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2007, lot 21.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

F. Lawton, The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin, London, 1906, pp. 75, 108, 126 & 268 (another cast illustrated).

J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin, l'oeuvre et l'homme, Brussels, 1908, p. 161 (another cast illustrated; marble version illustrated).

C. Mauclair, Auguste Rodin, The Man, His Ideas, His Works, London, 1909, p. 14 (another cast illustrated p. 12).

L. Bénédite, Rodin, Paris, 1924, pp. 26-27 (another cast illustrated pl. XVI).

L. Bénédite, Rodin, Paris, 1926, p. 61 (marble version illustrated pl. 9).

J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin, sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 142-143.

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, pp. 27-28 (marble version illustrated p. 28).

G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 141, no. 44 (another cast illustrated).

P.L. Grigau, 'Rodin's Eve', in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute, 1953 - 1954, pp. 14 & 16 (another cast illustrated p. 15).

A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 49, 151, 192 & 208 (another cast illustrated p. 51).

B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, p. 279 (another cast illustrated p. 23).

R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 160.

I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 88 (another cast illustrated pl. 19; plaster version illustrated, pl. 17).

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 148-157 (another cast illustrated fig. 8).

J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 17, 27, 143-144 & 146 (plaster version illustrated pp. 142 & 145).

L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, New York, 1979, no. 22, p. 118 (another cast illustrated).

M. Hanotelle, Paris/Bruxelles, Rodin et Meunier, Paris, 1982, pp. 59 & 202 (another cast illustrated).

H.H. Arnason, History of Modern Art, New York, 1986, no. 123 (marble version illustrated, p. 32).

N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée, Paris, 1987, no. 85, p.198 (marble version illustrated p. 199).

A. Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Dijon, 1988, pp. 82, 95 & 315 (terracotta version illustrated p. 84).

D. Finn & M. Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, pp. 42, 229 & 241 (another cast illustrated p. 46; marble version illustrated pp. 43-45 and on the cover).

A. Le Normand- Romain, Rodin, La porte de l'enfer, Paris, 1999, p. 45 (another cast illustrated).

A. Le Normand- Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, no. S.1299, pp. 343-340 & 345-347, (other versions illustrated pp. 338-347).



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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 2002V202B.
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