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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

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Lot 620 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

L’un des Bourgeois de Calais: Tête de Pierre de Wiessant, moyen modèle

signed ‘A. Rodin’ (on the right side of the neck); inscribed with foundry mark ‘Alexis Rudier. Fondeur. Paris’ (on the back of the neck)

bronze with dark brown patina

Height: 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.)

Conceived circa 1885-1886; this bronze version cast between 1930 and 1950





Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.

Paul Philippson, Great Britain; sale, Christie’s, London, 4 July 1975, lot 219.

Acquired at the above sale by the family of 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 2010-3308B.



Literature

I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 97-98 (another cast illustrated, pl. 47).

L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, pp. 119-120 (another cast illustrated, pl. 45).

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 376 and 396-397, no. 68 (another cast illustrated, p. 381).

A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 141-142, no. 31 (larger bronze version illustrated, pp. 141-142, fig. 109).

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 98 and 237-240 (other versions illustrated; plaster version illustrated, p. 239, fig. 25)
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