Property of a Private Collector
Auguste Rodin
Éternel printemps, second état, 3ème réduction, dite aussi ‘no. 3’
Auction Closed
June 28, 12:29 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property of a Private Collector
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Éternel printemps, second état, 3ème réduction, dite aussi ‘no. 3’
inscribed Rodin and with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne, Fondeur
bronze
length: 49 cm. 19¼ in.
Conceived in plaster in 1884; this example executed in 1910 from an edition of between 80 and 83 by the Leblanc-Barbedienne Foundry.
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 2011-3667B.
Private Collection, Nantes (acquired by descent from the above)
Nantes L’Hotel des Ventes, Couton Veyrac, Jamault, 6 December 2011, lot 83
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 56, n.p., illustration of a larger version
Robert Descharnes and Jean Francois Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 134, illustration of a larger version
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pls. 56 & 57, p. 96, illustration of another cast
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32b, p. 243, illustration of another cast
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Oxford, 1980, no. 48, n.p. illustration of a clay version
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, no. 313, p. 68, illustration of a clay version
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