PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
Auguste Rodin
Torse féminin assis, taille originale dit aussi "Torse Morhardt," Petit Modèle
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March 5, 03:22 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Torse féminin assis, taille originale dit aussi "Torse Morhardt," Petit Modèle
inscribed A. Rodin and numbered N°1; inscribed © Musée Rodin 1958.; inscribed Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris
bronze
height: 5 ⅛ in.
12.8 cm.
Conceived circa 1895 and cast in 1958.
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 2007-1263B.
Louise Reinhardt Smith, New York (acquired from the Musée Rodin as a promised gift to The Museum of Modern Art in January 1959)
Acquired as a bequest from the above in 1995 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks from the Louise Reinhardt Smith Collection, 1995
Kirk Varnedoe, Magdalena Dabrowski and Kadee Robbins, Masterworks from the Louise Reinhardt Smith Collection, New York 1995, pp. 60-1, 89, illustrated
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