AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Sold
$ 478 800
Auction dateClassic
13.05.2023 19:30UTC -04:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
USA, New York
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 950086
Lot 722 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Eve, petit modèle - version à la base ronde

signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Alexis RUDIER..Fondeur. PARIS.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)

bronze with dark brown and green patina

Height: 28 in. (71 cm.)

Conceived in 1883; this bronze version cast in 1949





Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.

Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, July 1951.



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 2008-1834.



Literature

J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin: L'oeuvre et l'homme, Brussels, 1908, p. 161 (marble version illustrated, p. 32).

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

L. Bénédite, Rodin, Paris, 1924, pp. 26-27 (another version illustrated).

J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin: Sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 142-43.

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 28, nos. 65-67 (plaster version illustrated).

A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 39, 49, 151, 192 and 208 (other versions illustrated).

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

I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 90 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 17).

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 148-157 (other bronze versions illustrated, fig. 8-7).

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

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

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. 187-191, no. 41 (other bronze and plaster versions illustrated, pp. 187-189).

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 339-343 (other bronze versions illustrated, p. 340).
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
20 Rockefeller Plaza
10020 New York
USA
Preview
13.06.2023
Phone +1 212 636 2000
Fax +1 212 636 4930
Email
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase
Shipping Postal service
Courier service
pickup by yourself
Payment methods Wire Transfer
Business hoursBusiness hours
Mo 09:30 – 17:00   
Tu 09:30 – 17:00   
We 09:30 – 17:00   
Th 09:30 – 17:00   
Fr 09:30 – 17:00   
Sa closed
Su closed

More from Creator

AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
£80 000
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
€300 000
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
€100
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
€100
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
£25 000
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
€100
RODIN, Auguste NACH (1840-1917), 'The Thinker',
RODIN, Auguste NACH (1840-1917), 'The Thinker',
€100
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
£250 000

Related terms