Auguste Rodin

Nu féminin agenouillé en torsion

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

June 28, 12:29 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Nu féminin agenouillé en torsion

inscribed A. Rodin, numbered 1/8, inscribed © by Musée Rodin 1984 and with the foundry mark E.Godard Fondr

bronze

height: 59.4 cm. 23⅜ in.

Conceived between 1882 and 1885; this example executed on 10 July 1984 by the Musée Rodin at the Emile Godard foundry as number 1 from an edition 10, numbered 1 to 8 plus two numbered I/II and II/II.

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 2008-2151B.

Musée Rodin, Paris
Galerie J.C. Belier, Paris (acquired from the above in 1985)
Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired from the above in 1999)
Chayette et Cheval Paris, 1 December 2014, lot 132
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Albert Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, 1981, no. 334, p. 143, another plaster cast illustrated

Catherine Lampert, Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings, London and New Haven, 1986, no. 85, p. 20, another plaster cast illustrated

Monique Laurent, Rodin, Paris, 1988, p. 91

Claudie Judrin and Hélène Pinet (eds.), Los Arrepentimientos de Rodin, Barcelona, 2001, no. 200