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Property from a Private East Coast Collection

Auguste Rodin

Torse de la centauresse

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December 13, 05:23 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private East Coast Collection

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Torse de la centauresse


inscribed with artist's signature, numbered No 1/8 and inscribed © by Musee Rodin 1986; stamped with the foundry mark E. Godard Fondeur

bronze

height (including base): 10½ in.

26.6 cm.

Conceived circa 1887; this example executed in 1986 in an edition of 12.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin in collaboration with Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2021-6368B.

Musée Rodin, Paris

B. Gerald Cantor, New York (acquired from the above in July 1987)

Acquired in 1991 as a gift from the above by the present owner

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, p. 256, illustrations of another cast