Auguste Rodin

Musée Rodin, Paris 

Weston Thorn, New York (acquired circa 1989)

Sotheby's, New York, 15 November 1989, lot 26 (consigned by the above)

Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo (acquired at the above sale) 

Private Collection, Japan

Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo  

Christie's, New York, 13 November 1996, lot 6 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)

Christie’s, Paris, 30 June 2022, lot 41 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 143, p. 61, illustration of another cast (dated 1889)

Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Monaco, 1944, pl. 40, illustration of another cast; p. 140

Henri Martinie, Auguste Rodin 1840-1917, Paris, 1949, pl. 19, illustration a plaster

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 52, 54, 197 and 213, illustrations of the monumental version; pp. 53, 55, 57, 144, 192, 194, 199, 208-09 and 211; p. 190, illustration of another cast

Ionel Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 42 and 88; pl. 11, illustration of another cast 

Robert Descharnes and Jean-François. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 74 (illustration of the monumental version)

Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Thinker: Significant Aspects, Burlingame, 1973, pp. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 22-29; pls. 1-6, illustrations of the monumental version

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 3a, pp. 111-12, 114, 116, 118-20; p. 113, illustration of another cast; p. 115, illustration of the monumental version 

Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 19, pp. 130, 132 and 135-36, illustrations of the monumental version; pp. 131, 133-34 and 137-38

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Rodin Rediscovered, 1981-82, p. 67, illustrations of the clay version; p. 242, illustration of another cast 

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Thinker and the Dilemmas of Modern Public Sculpture, New Haven, 1985, figs. 1-11, 34-36, 45, 48-50, 52, 54-56, pp. 3, 11-12, 17, 19, 27, 30, 36, 38-39, 43, 48, 52-55, 57, 59, 61-65, 67, 71, 75-77, 79-81, 83-90, 92-94, 96-102, 105-10, 112, 114-22, 124-26, 130-31, 133-35, 137-38, 141, 147, 150, 153, 156, 158-61, 163-72; pp. 4-10 and 13-16, illustrations of another cast; pp. 34-36, illustrations of the clay version and pp. 45, 48-50, 52 and 54-56, illustrations of the monumental version

Albert E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford, 1985, figs. 50, 52 and 60; pp. 10, 14, 20, 22, 40, 45, 51-52, 57, 68-69, 70-71, 73, 74, 80, 83, 120, 124, 127, 135, 145, 152-53, 208-09, 211-12, 216-17, 219, 224-25, 231, 235-36, 243, 251, 254-55; pp. 56 and 58, illustrations of the clay model

Catherine Lampert, Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1986, pp. 24 and 205, no. 7, pl. 44, p. 25, illustration of another cast

Pierre Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe siècle, dictionnaire des sculpteurs, Paris, 1987, p. 582, illustration of another cast

Ruth Butler, Rodin, The Shape of Genius, New Haven, 1993, pl. 63, illustration of the small plaster; pl. 175, illustration of the large plaster; pl. 175, illustration of the monumental version; pp. 422-31

Antoinette le Normand-Romain, ed., The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S.1131, figs. 4, 7, 9, 11-14 and 16; pp. 584-85, 587-89 and 591-94, illustrations of another cast, the clay and the monumental version; pp. 590, 592 and 595 (titled Le Penseur, taille originale)