Auguste Rodin

Tête de Balzac, dernier état, version au col coupé derrière l'oreille

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October 19, 01:55 PM GMT

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Property from a Private Collection, Ireland

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Tête de Balzac, dernier état, version au col coupé derrière l'oreille

signed A.Rodin and with the foundry mark AlexisRudier.Fondeur.Paris; with the raised signature A.Rodin on the inside

bronze

height: 17.8 cm., 7in.

height (including base): 27.8cm., 11in.

Conceived circa 1897; this bronze version cast between 1925 and 1940.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2007-1718B.

Musée Rodin, Paris
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired in the 1960s)
Private Collection (acquired from the above. Sold: Christie's, 5th February 2008, lot 278)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 93 (terracotta and plaster versions illustrated p. 90)

Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 104-105

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 76, p. 454, another cast illustrated p. 431

Jacques de Caso & Patricia Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 46 (another cast illustrated pp. 238-239)