Lot 256
  • 256

Auguste Rodin

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • Tête d'Eustache de Saint-Pierre, étude type A grand modèle
  • Inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris.
  • Bronze
  • Height: 14 1/4 in.
  • 35.9 cm

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1971)
Private Collection, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1971)
Thence by descent

Literature

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1938, no. 150, illustration of another cast p. 61
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 401
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.390, illustration of another cast p. 230

Condition

Very attractive dark green and black patina. The work is screwed to a wooden base. One tiny pindot nick at the center of the back of the head and a few other pindot spots of acretion in the beard. Overall this work is in excellent condition.
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