Lot 409
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AUGUSTE RODIN | Torse d'homme, étude type A, petit modèle

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18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • Torse d'homme, étude type A, petit modèle
  • Inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris., dated by musée Rodin 1967 and numbered N=1
  • Bronze
  • Height (not including base): 7 1/4 in.
  • 18.4 cm
  • Conceived circa 1895-1900 and cast in bronze in an edition of 13 by the Georges Rudier foundry between 1967 and 1975; this example cast in 1967.

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor, New York (acquired from the above in January 1968)
Vera Green, New York (a gift from the above)
Sale: Christie's East, New York, May 7, 1991, lot 87B
Louis Newmann Galleries, California (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above

Literature

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, illustration of another cast p. 691

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 2004-536B.