Lot 10
  • 10

Auguste Rodin 1840-1917

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • Torse de l'Aube
  • inscribed A. Rodin No 5/8 (on top on base); inscribed ©BY Musee Rodin 2000 E. GODARD Fondr (on side of base)
  • bronze with dark brown patina with traces of grey-green
  • Height 7 in.
  • 17.7 cm.
  • model executed circa 1900, this example cast in 2000, from an edition of 12, numbered from 1/8 to 8/8 and I/IV to IV/IV, begun in 1995

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001

Condition

good condition with very little wear to extremities
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin, being prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay, under the number 2007V1195B.