Lot 45
  • 45

AUGUSTE RODIN | (i) Cavalier enlevant une femme (ii) Centauresse - recto(ii) Centauresse à la patte tendue vers l'avant - verso(iii) Cavalier de profil vers la droite(iv) Cavalier de profil vers la droite

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • (i) Cavalier enlevant une femme (ii) Centauresse - recto(ii) Centauresse à la patte tendue vers l'avant - verso(iii) Cavalier de profil vers la droite(iv) Cavalier de profil vers la droite
  • (i) inscribed sitôt j'en profiterais / Mademoiselle Camille n'a / pas besoin de tant travailler / [à] la campagne. C'est bon / sur Paris / Je vous prie d'agréer l'expression / [de] mes sentiments distingués / A. Rodin / [mes propres dessins?] faire / civilités. (on the reverse)
  • (i) & (ii) monotype and ink on paper(iii) & (iv) monotype on paper
  • (i): 8,1 x 6,9 cm; 3 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.; (ii): 8,7 x 7,6 cm; 3 3/8 x 3 in.; (iii): 7,2 x 8,3 cm; 2 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. ; (iv) : 9,1 x 6,2 cm; 3 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.
  • Executed circa 1880.

Provenance

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

Condition

(i) Executed on cream laid paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic supports and floating in its mount. The right edge is deckled. There is tape remnant on the reverse along the upper edge. There are handling marks along the extreme edges. The sheet is slightly light stained. This work is in overall very good condition. (ii) Executed on cream laid paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic supports and floating in its mount. The left edge is partially deckled. There is tape remnant on the reverse along the upper edge and some spots of paper remnant, predominately towards the centre of the right edge. The sheet is slightly cut in two points towards the centre of the left edge with an associated tiny tear (approx. 0,7 cm long). There is some handling marks in places and a few dots of foxing. The sheet is slightly light stained. This work is in overall good condition. (iii) Executed on grey/green wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic supports and floating in its mount. The right and lower edges are deckled. There is a repaired tear (approx. 1 cm long) towards the upper left corner. There are a few scattered dots of foxing. This work is in overall good condition. (iv) Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic supports and floating in its mount. All four edges are slightly deckled with some minor nicks along the lower edge. There is tape remnant on the verso along the upper edge and a few flattened creases. The sheet is light stained. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The monotype Cavalier enlevant une femme (i) was executed on the reverse of a letter quoting Camille Claudel.

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 numbers 180309 (i), 180310 (ii), 180323 (iii) and 180324 (iv).