ID 950111
Lot 725 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
Fatigue
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed and stamped with foundry mark 'ALEXIS RUDIER. FONDEUR. PARIS. 2ème Épreuve.' (on the side of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Length: 20 1/8 in. (50.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1884; this bronze version cast in 1910-1917
Provenance
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Emil Winter, Pittsburgh; Estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 17 January 1942, lot 532.
Geraldine Rockefeller-Dodge, New Jersey; Estate sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 22 October 1975, lot 111.
Acquired at the above sale by 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 2010-3283B.
Literature
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 91.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 47 (another cast illustrated, p. 46, pl. 7).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 355 (another cast illustrated; plaster version illustrated, p. 356).
| Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Allegory |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Allegory |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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