AUGUSTE RODIN | (i) Cavalier de profil vers la gauche - recto Centaure tendant les bras vers le haut - verso(ii) Centaure et enfant - recto Personnage chevauchant un centaure - verso(iii) Cavalier de profil vers la gauche, dressant sa monture - recto Cavalier de profil vers la droite, réfreinant sa monture - verso

(Probably) Auguste Beuret, Paris (the artist's son)
Loïe Fuller, Paris
Jean & Paule Cailac, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner

(i) Executed on cream wove lined paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic support and floating in its mount. The right, left and lower edges are deckled. Recto: There are a few faint creases in places, predominately along the extreme edges. The sheet is light stained. Verso: There is tape remnant along the upper edge. There are a few faint creases in places, predominately along the extreme edges. The sheet is light stained. This work is in overall very good condition. (ii) Executed on cream wove squared paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic support and floating in its mount. The edges are slightly unevenly cut. There are a few small tears (the larger of which is approx. 0.7 cm long) to the left part of the lower edge. There is a diagonal flattened crease running from left edge to lower edge and a few flattened smaller creases in places. Recto : The sheet is light stained and there is a dot of foxing towards the centre of the sheet. Verso : There is some old tape remnants in two points along the upper edge, the sheet is light stained with a dot of foxing towards the centre of the sheet. This work is in overall good condition. (iii) Executed on cream lined wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic support and floating in its mount. The right edge is deckled. There is a small paper loss to the upper right corner (visible in the catalogue illustration). The lower right corner is folded. There is a small crease towards the centre of the upper edge and a few additional minor creases in places, notably to the lower left corner. Recto: There is some old tape remnant to the left part of the upper edge. The sheet is light stained. Verso: The sheet is light stained with faint handling marks along the extreme edges. This work is in overall good condition.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné des dessins et peintures d’Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) being prepared by Christina Buley-Uribe under the archive number 180312 (i), 180313 (ii) and 180314 (iii).