The Mastbaum Bronzes: Property from the Family of Jules E. Mastbaum
Auguste Rodin
Néréides, esquisse dit aussi "Sirènes, petit modèle"
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The Mastbaum Bronzes: Property from the Family of Jules E. Mastbaum
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Néréides, esquisse dit aussi "Sirènes, petit modèle"
plaster
height: 8¾ in.
22.3 cm.
Conceived before 1887 and cast by Paul Cruet in 1928.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue critique de l'œuvre 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 2023-6772B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Etta Wedell Mastbaum, Philadelphia (acquired as a gift from the above on 4 November 1927)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Etta Wedell Mastbaum, Philadelphia (acquired as a gift from the above on 4 November 1927)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris 1927, nos. 175-76, illustration of another plaster version
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris 1967, p. 92, pl. 27, illustration of the marble version
Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 1967, no. XIII, pp. 60-61, pls. 76-79, illustration of the bronze and marble versions
Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery, Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings, 1970, no. 30, p. 42, illustration of another plaster version
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, pp. 217-18, pls. 24-B and 24-I, illustrations of bronze versions
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Rodin en 1900: L'Exposition de l'Alma, 2001, no. 24, p. 107, illustration of a bronze version
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in The Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris 2007, no. S.5B, pp. 653-54, illustrations of the bronze and marble versions
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris 1967, p. 92, pl. 27, illustration of the marble version
Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 1967, no. XIII, pp. 60-61, pls. 76-79, illustration of the bronze and marble versions
Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery, Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings, 1970, no. 30, p. 42, illustration of another plaster version
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, pp. 217-18, pls. 24-B and 24-I, illustrations of bronze versions
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Rodin en 1900: L'Exposition de l'Alma, 2001, no. 24, p. 107, illustration of a bronze version
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in The Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris 2007, no. S.5B, pp. 653-54, illustrations of the bronze and marble versions
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