ID 990497
Lot 392 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 300 000
Eve, petit modèle, Version à la base carrée dite aussi aux pieds plats
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); stamped with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
height: 29 5/8 in. (75.2 cm.)
First conceived in 1881; this version conceived in 1883; this example cast by Alexis Rudier between 1920-1930
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Haussmann [Gustave Danthon], Paris.
Jacques & Simone Lemaigre du Breuil, Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 25 April 1934, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, Paris, 31 March 2016, lot 218.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme LeBlay under archive number 2013-4270B.
Literature
C. Mauclair, Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, London, 1905, p. 12 (marble version illustrated).
J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin, L'œuvre et l'homme, Brussels, 1908, p. 159 (another version referenced; other versions illustrated pls. 6 & 32).
L. Bénédite, Rodin, London, 1924, pp. 26-27 (another version illustrated pl. XVI).
L. Bénédite, Rodin, London, 1926, pl. 9 (marble version illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 1927, no. 39, pp. 35-36 (marble version illustrated p. 35).
J. Cladel, Rodin, sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 142-143.
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 44, p. 141 (another cast illustrated pl. 44).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 88-89 (plaster version illustrated pl. 17).
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 98 (another cast illustrated p. 99).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 8-5, p. 155 (another cast illustrated p. 154).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, Rutland, 1977, no. 21, pp. 143-147 (plaster version illustrated pp. 142 &145).
M. Hanotelle, Paris/Bruxelles: Rodin et Meunier, Relations des sculpteurs français et belges à la fin du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1982, p. 59 (another version illustrated p. 57).
A. Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, pp. 82-85 (terracotta version illustrated p. 84).
D. Finn & M. Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, p. 42 (other versions illustrated pp. 43-47).
R. Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, New Haven & London, 1993, fig. 66, p. 161 (plaster version illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.756, p. 341 (another cast illustrated fig. 7, p. 346).
Artist: | François Auguste René Rodin (1840 - 1917) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
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: | Modern art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Address of auction |
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