Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
MASQUE D'IRIS, MESSAGÈRE DES DIEUX, MOYEN MODÈLE
inscribed A. Rodin, numbered 3, stamped with the foundry mark Susse fondeur Paris and stamped ©by Musée Rodin 1970
bronze
height (without base): 21.8cm., 8 5/8 in.
Conceived circa 1888-90 and cast in bronze by the Susse Foundry, Paris between 1969 and 1979 in an edition of 11 (numbered 0-10); this work cast in 1970.
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This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2016-4968B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Galería Theo, Madrid (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in March 1972
Exposition Rodin au Japon (exhibition catalogue), Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo & travelling in Japan, 1976-77, no. 76, illustration of another cast n.p.
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, no. S.510, illustration of another cast p. 456