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Auguste Rodin

Pierre de Wiessant, vêtu, Grand Modèle

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October 16, 07:07 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 900,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917


Pierre de Wiessant, vêtu, Grand Modèle 

inscribed A. Rodin, numbered 6/8, dated © Musée Rodin 1982 and with the foundry mark FC

bronze

height (including base): 213.5 cm. 84 in.

Conceived in 1887; this example cast by Fonderie de Coubertin for Musée Rodin in 1982 in an edition of 12 numbered casts.


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 2025-7835B.

Musée Rodin, Paris

Acquired from the above in February 1984 by the present owner

Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Leipzig, 1922, no. 7, n.p., plaster of the final version illustrated; no. 75, n.p., study illustrated

Georges Grappe, ed., Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, nos. 132-133, p. 63, final version and study illustrated

Phillip R. Adams, Auguste Rodin, New York, 1945, n.p., final version illustrated

Edouard Herriot, Rodin, Paris, 1949, pp. 28-29, final version illustrated in photographs

Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, pp. 34-35, final version illustrated

Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 107-114, other versions and studies illustrated

Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, pl. 57, p. 40, earlier version illustrated; pl. 62-64, pp. 44-47, earlier versions illustrated; pl. 58, p. 41, final version illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, pp. 71 and 84, final version illustrated; p. 87, final version illustrated in a photograph (detail); pp. 72 and 85, final version illustrated in photographs; pp. 73, 75-76 and 79, earlier versions and studies illustrated

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 67-69-13, p. 390, another cast illustrated; no. 67, p. 377, final version illustrated; pp. 378, 381, 384, 386-87, 389 and 391, earlier versions and studies illustrated

Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture. A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1977, no. 44, p. 223, another cast illustrated; pp. 204, 207 and 212, earlier versions and studies illustrated; pp. 215-16

Mary Jo McNamara and Albert Elsen, Rodin's Burghers of Calais: Rodin's Sculptural Studies for the Monument to the Burghers of Calais from the Collection of the Cantor, Fitzgerald Group, London, 1977, final version illustrated on the cover; no. 4, n.p., earlier version illustrated; pp. 16, 37-39, 53-55, earlier versions and studies illustrated; pp. 45 and 56-60, final version illustrated in photographs; p. 61, plaster of the final version illustrated in a photograph

Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin’s Studio. A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Oxford, 1980, nos. 55 and 56, n.p., earlier versions illustrated in photographs of Rodin’s studio; nos. 60- 64, n.p., final version illustrated in photographs

Clare Vincent, “Rodin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A History of the Collection,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. XXXVIII, no. 4, Spring 1981, no. 55, p. 44, another cast illustrated

Catherine Lampert, Rodin Sculpture & Drawings, London, 1986, fig. 174, p. 100, another cast illustrated in colour in a photograph (detail); pp. 103, 104, 111-12 and 115, earlier versions and studies illustrated

Antoinette LeNormand-Romain and Annette Haudiquet, Rodin The Burghers of Calais, Paris, 2001, no. 53, p. 47, another cast illustrated in colour in a photograph; pp. 6 and 31-32, plasters of the final version illustrated; pp. 21-23, 50-53, 55 and 60-64, earlier versions and studies illustrated

Antoinette LeNormand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, S.6139, p. 237, another cast illustrated; pp. 208-16, 233-36 and 238-41, earlier versions and studies illustrated