Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Auguste Rodin

Petite Ombre se coiffant

Lot Closed

March 26, 12:31 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Petite Ombre se coiffant

inscribed A. Rodin, © by Musée Rodin 1965 and stamped with the foundry mark Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris

bronze

Length: 16.8cm., 6⅝in.

Length (including base): 19cm., 7½in.

Conceived in 1888-1890 and cast in bronze in April 1965 in an edition of 12 plus one for the Musée Rodin.

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 2020-6276B.

Musée Rodin, Paris
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in June 1965)
Private Collection, Canada (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, no. S. 514, another cast illustrated p. 574