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Four Rodin Bronzes from The Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection

Auguste Rodin

Éternel printemps, premier état, taille originale, variante type A

Auction Closed

March 4, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Auguste Rodin 

1840 - 1917  

 

Éternel printemps, premier état, taille originale, variante type A

inscribed Rodin  

bronze  

height: 63.7 cm. 25⅛ in.

Conceived circa 1883; this example cast by Griffoul et Lorge in 1894.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l’œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2025-7321B.

William Turner Dannat, New York (acquired from the artist circa July 1894)

Elizabeth L. Jackson, Huntington

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above in March 1944)

James Graham & Sons, New York (acquired from the above in April 1944)

Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, New York (probably acquired from the above)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1961 by the present owner

Munich, Internationalen Kunst-Ausstellung des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens (A. V.) “Secession”, 1894, no. 387b (titled Frühling (Bronzegruppe))

Paul Clemen, “Auguste Rodin. I. Teil,” Die Kunst für Alle, April 1905, no. 13, p. 303, marble illustrated

Frederick Lawton, The Life and Works of Auguste Rodin, London, 1906, p. 112, marble illustrated

Leonce Bénédite, Rodin, London, 1926, pl. 12, marble illustrated

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 69, p. 42, another cast illustrated

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, nos. 87 and 88, another cast illustrated

Georges Danthon, Œuvres de Rodin, Catalogue, Musée Rodin, 1929, no. 87, p. 49, another cast illustrated

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1931, no. 135, another cast illustrated

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1938, no. 100, p. 42, another cast illustrated

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 113, p. 42, another cast illustrated

René Descharnes and Jean-Francois Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 134, another cast illustrated

Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pls. 56-57, illustrations of another cast

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, figs. 32a-b, pp. 242-43, plaster and another cast illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, New York, 1980, pl. 48, n.p., clay version illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, fig. 3.13, clay version illustrated

Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, p. 121

David Finn and Marie Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries, The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, p. 227, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Bremen, Kunsthalle and Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Rodin: Eros and Creativity, 1991-92, pl. 1, another cast illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, fig. 414, pp. 494-96, another cast illustrated

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 331-37, other casts illustrated