Lot 319
  • 319

AUGUSTE RODIN | Frère et Soeur

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • Frère et Soeur
  • signed A. Rodin and inscribed with the foundry mark ALEXIS.RUDIER FONDEUR.PARIS ; stamped A.Rodin (in the interior)
  • bronze
  • height: 38,5 cm; 15 1/8 in.
  • Conceived circa 1890-91, this work cast in bronze circa 1910.

Provenance

Sale: Palais Galliera, Paris, December 14, 1960, lot 212
Private collection, France (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Léon Maillard, Études sur quelques artistes originaux, Auguste Rodin statuaire, Paris, 1989, illustrations of another cast pp. 146 & 155
Léonce Bénédite, Catalogue sommaire des oeuvres d'Auguste Rodin et autre oeuvres d'art de la donation Rodin, Paris, 1919, no. 158
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 166, illustration of another cast n.p.
Édouard Herriot, Rodin, Paris, 1949, no. 36, illustration of another cast n.p.
Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, illustration of another cast p. 49
Bernard Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, no. 107, illustration of another cast p. 214
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of another cast p. 104
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 25-2, illustration of another cast p. 223
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, illustration of another cast pp. 376-77 

Condition

The bronze is sound with a rich black patina. Some light wear to the patina consistent with age and handling, in particular under the rock on which the figures are seated and to the top of the female figure's head. There is a light build up of dust in the crevices. There are a couple of minor surface nicks in places, barely visible to the naked eye. This work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2016-4841B.