Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property of a Private Collector
Auguste Rodin
Orpheline Alsacienne, version à la tête penchée
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Orpheline Alsacienne, version à la tête penchée
inscribed A. RODIN and bears the apocryphal inscription 98
terracotta
height (not including base): 29.5cm., 11⅝in.
height: (including base): 37.5cm., 14¾in.
Conceived in 1870 and cast at a later date, before 1900.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l’œuvre 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 2015-4587B.
Taxile Doat, France
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25th March 1982, lot 56
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15th December 1982, lot 67
Private Collection, France (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1988
Vers l'age d'arain. Rodin en Belgique (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris, 1997, mentioned p. 113 (with incorrect cataloguing)
Cécile Goldscheider, Catalogue raisonné de l' œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, no. 35, illustrated p. 59 (as dating from 1869)