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The Mastbaum Bronzes: Property from the Family of Jules E. Mastbaum

Auguste Rodin & Camille Claudel

Tête d'esclave aveugle

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

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The Mastbaum Bronzes: Property from the Family of Jules E. Mastbaum

Auguste Rodin & Camille Claudel

1840 - 1917 & 1864 - 1943


Tête d'esclave aveugle

inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur.Paris

bronze

height: 4¾ in.

12 cm.

Conceived circa 1885 and cast in 1926. 


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 2023-6769B. 

Musée Rodin, Paris
Jules E. Mastbaum, New York (commissioned from the above in November 1925 and acquired in May 1926)
Thence by descent to the present owner