Auguste Rodin

Main crispée droite, agrandissement dit aussi "grand modèle"

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May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

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250,000 - 350,000 USD

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The Mastbaum Bronzes: Property from the Family of Jules E. Mastbaum

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Main crispée droite, agrandissement dit aussi "grand modèle"

inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier. Fondeur Paris; stamped A. Rodin (on the interior)

bronze

height: 18¼ in.

46.5 cm.

Conceived before 1898, enlarged by Henri Lebossé in 1905 and cast in 1926.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin in collaboration with Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2007-1235B.

Musée Rodin, Paris
Jules and Etta Mastbaum, Philadelphia (commissioned from the above in August 1925 and acquired in June 1926)
Thence by descent to the present owners

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Rodin, 1963, no. 62-1100
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1963-1981 (on loan)

Camille Mauclair, L'Oeuvre de Rodin, Paris 1900, pp. 30-32, illustration of another cast
Franklin Watkins, Rodin Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia 1929, no. 29
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York 1963, p. 80, illustration of another cast
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris 1967, p. 93
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, no. 119, pp. 616-18, illustrated
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C. 1981, nos. 182-85, p. 223, illustration of another cast
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris 2007, p. 500, illustration of another cast