Lot 53
  • 53

AUGUSTE RODIN | (i) Figure cambrée vers la droite, un pied sur un socle(ii) Etude d'élément d'architecture

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • (i) Figure cambrée vers la droite, un pied sur un socle(ii) Etude d'élément d'architecture
  • (i) ink on printed paper laid down on artist's mount(ii) ink on paper
  • (i) drawing: 7,8 x 4,8 cm; 3 x 1 7/8 in.; artist's mount: 9 x 6,2 cm ; 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (ii) 10,6 x 8,3 cm; 4 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.
  • (i) Executed circa 1870. (ii) 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) Drawing: Executed on cream partially printed wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic supports and floating in its mount. The upper and right edges are slightly deckled. There are some scattered dots of foxing and the sheet is slightly light stained. Artist's mount: The edges are slightly unevenly cut. There is tape remnant on the verso along the upper edge. There are some minor dots of foxing and a few flattened creases. This work is in overall very good condition. (ii) Executed on cream lined wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount with transparent plastic supports and floating in its mount. The right and left edges are unevenly cut. The upper left and lower right tips are folded. There are a few flattened creases in places, some faint handling marks, notably along the lower edge, and some fowing along the upper edge. The sheet is slightly light stained. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

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 180325 (i) and 180326 (ii).