Property from a Private Californian Collection
Auguste Rodin
Néréides, agrandissement dit aussi "Trois sirènes, grand modèle" ou "La Vague"
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May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
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50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Property from a Private Californian Collection
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Néréides, agrandissement dit aussi "Trois sirènes, grand modèle" ou "La Vague"
inscribed A. Rodin, dated 1981, numbered No.10 and stamped © by Musée Rodin and with the foundry mark Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris.
bronze
height: 17 in.
43.2 cm.
Conceived in 1887 and cast in 1981.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre 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 2009-2817B.
Solmar Development (Mme de Rybeiro), Zurich (acquired from the above in November 1983)
Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 305 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Gustave Geffroy, La vie artistique (deuxième série), Paris 1893, p. 90, illustration of another cast
Judith Cladel, Rodin, sa view glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris 1936, p. 173, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Cleveland Museum of Art, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, pp. 61 and 99, illustration of another cast
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris 1944, nos. 186-87, illustration of the plaster cast
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris 1967, p. 92, illustration of the marble version
John Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, no. 24, pp. 215-19, illustration of another cast
Patrice Marandel, "Rodin's Thinker: Notes on the Early History of the Detroit Cast," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 62, no. 4, 1987, p. 51, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Brooklyn Museum, Rodin: The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum, 1988, no. 16, illustration of another cast
Patrice Marandel, "Rodin's Thinker: Notes on the Early History of the Detroit Cast," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 63, no. 3/4, 1988, pp. 48-50, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, La Collection du brasseur Carl Jacobsen à la Glyptothèque—et oeuvres apparentées, 1988, pp. 122-23, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, Manet, Gauguin, Rodin...Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek de Copenhague, 1995, no. 47, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Quebec Museum, Rodin à Quebec, 1998, no. 100, pp. 231-32, illustration of another cast
Ruth Butler, Lindsay Glover et. al., eds., European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century: The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Princeton 2001, pp. 354-57, illustration of another cast
Emilie Silvoz, "La Collection Rodin du Musée Faure d'Aix-les-Bains," Catalogue Raisonné, Master's dissertation, 2004, nos. 17-18, illustration of another cast
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin. Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris 2007, no. S1069, pp. 652-55, illustration of another cast
