ID 950086
Lot 722 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
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).
| Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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