Auguste Rodin & Camille Claudel

Tête d’esclave aveugle

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December 16, 04:09 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an American Estate

Auguste Rodin & Camille Claudel

1840 - 1917 & 1864 - 1943

Tête d’esclave aveugle

inscribed with artist's signature and numbered n°9; stamped with the foundry mark George Rudier fondeur Paris and © Musée Rodin 1964

bronze

height: 5¼ in.

13.3 cm.

Conceived circa 1885; this example executed between 1960 and 1965 by Georges Rudier for the Museé Rodin in a partly-numbered edition of 12, this version cast in 1961.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l’Œuvre Sculpté d’Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay, under archive number 2022-6709B, as a work by Auguste Rodin with the collaboration of Camille Claudel.

Musée Rodin, Paris

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above in December 1964)

Albert Loeb Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above on 23 March 1966)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Anne Rivière, Bruno Gaudichon and Danielle Ghanassia, Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2000, no. 18, p. 76 (as by both Rodin and Claudel)

Reine-Marie Paris, Camille Claudel re-trouvée, Paris, 2000, no. 14, pp. 236-38, illustration of another cast (as by Claudel)

Exh. Cat., Québec, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (and traveling), "Rodin or Claudel?," in Claudel and Rodin: Fateful encounter, 2005-6, no. 46, p. 66, illustration of another cast (as by Claudel)