Auguste Rodin

Buste de Bacchante à la chevelure parsemée de raisins et de feuilles de vigne dite aussi "les raisins" or "l'Automne"

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June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

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Property from a Private Collection

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Buste de Bacchante à la chevelure parsemée de raisins et de feuilles de vigne dite aussi "les raisins" or "l'Automne"

inscribed A Rodin

terracotta

height (without base): 35 cm. 13¾ in.

height (with base): 44.5 cm. 17½ in.

Conceived circa 1874; this version modelled circa 1878; this version is unique.

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 2022-6557B

Arnold Seligmann, Paris

Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, Collection de Madame et Monsieur Arnold Seligmann, 4-5 June 1935, lot 61 (consigned by the above)

James Capucines, Paris (acquired from the above sale)

Wildenstein & Co., Paris

Takuji Kato Modern Art Museum, Kato (acquired in the 1980s)

Acquired from the above circa 2002 by the present owner

Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, vol. I, Paris, 1989, no. 43, p. 68, illustrated (titled L'Automne and dated 1871-75)