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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

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Lot 732 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Le Jongleur

signed, inscribed with foundry mark and dated 'A. Rodin .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur Paris. © by musée Rodin 1957.' (on the underside)

bronze with dark brown and green patina

Height: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm.)

Conceived circa 1892-1895; this bronze version cast in 1957





Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.

Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above, March 1960).

Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 1960.



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 2010-3309B.



Literature

L. Roger-Milés, "Rodin," Figaro Illustré, vol. 25, no. 192, March 1906 (another cast illustrated, p. 78; titled Jeux de faune et de nymphe).

O. Grautoff, Auguste Rodin, Bielefeld & Leipzig, 1908, vol. XCIII, p. 66 (plaster version illustrated, fig. 63; titled Liebesspiel).

G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 389.

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 42 and 53 (another cast illustrated, pl. 28).

A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Oxford, 1980, p. 176 (another cast illustrated, pl. 78).

M. Laurent, Rodin, Paris, 1988, p. 151 (another cast illustrated).

C. Ebneter, et al., Rilke & Rodin, Paris 1902-1913, Sierre, 1997 (another cast illustrated, p. 175).

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 475-476 (another cast illustrated, p. 475).
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