Lot 459
  • 459

AUGUSTE RODIN | Vénus, moyen modèle, dit aussi "Aphrodite, moyen modèle"

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • Vénus, moyen modèle, dit aussi "Aphrodite, moyen modèle"
  • Inscribed A. Rodin, dated 1979, numbered no. 12, inscribed © by Musée Rodin and with the foundry mark E. Godard Fondr.
  • Bronze
  • Height: 38 in.
  • 97 cm
  • Conceived circa 1885-89 and cast in bronze between 1973-79 in a numbered edition of 13 by the Emile Godard Foundry, Paris; this example cast in 1979.

Provenance

Museé Rodin, Paris
Acquired from the above in March 1979

Literature

Homage to Rodin: Collection of B. Gerald Cantor (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 37, illustration of another cast n.p.
John L. Tancock, Rodin in Mexico, Collection of European Sculpture from the XIX and XX Centuries (exhibition catalogue), Mexico City, Museo Soumaya, 1997, no. 25, illustration of another cast n.p.
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 134

Condition

Black brown patina. The bronze is attached to a black stone base with two rods. This base contains a few nicks at the bottom and two do the edges. Surface dust in the deeper crevices. Some minor rubbing yo the figure's proper left shoulder. An area of abrasion and associated accretions on the figure's proper left ankle and on the ball of the figure's proper left foot. A few small scratches to the figure's proper right knee. A few scratches and rubbing to the inherent bronze base. The work is in 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 prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under no. 2018-5673B.