Auguste Rodin
L'un des Bourgeois de Calais: Buste de l'étude de nu pour le Jean d'Aire
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November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
L'un des Bourgeois de Calais: Buste de l'étude de nu pour le Jean d'Aire
inscribed with the artist's signature; stamped with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris; stamped with artist's signature (on the interior)
bronze
height: 18½ in.
46.9 cm.
Conceived in 1886; this example executed in December 1940.
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 2008-2252B.
Eugène Rudier, Le Vésinet (acquired from the above in December 1940)
Roger Dupin, Paris
Hôtel Drouot Paris, 19 June 1989, lot 49 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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