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Auguste Rodin

Balzac, étude type C (Tête), réduction

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Description

Property of a Nobleman

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Balzac, étude type C (Tête), réduction


inscribed Rodin

wax

height: 20.8cm; 8¼ in.

Conceived in 1892 and executed between 1918 and 1927, this work 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 1998-417B.

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Provenant d'une Prestigieuse Collection Particulière

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Balzac, étude type C (Tête), réduction


inscrit Rodin

cire

hauteur: 20.8cm., 8¼in

Conçue en 1892 et exécutée entre 1918 et 1927, cette œuvre est unique.


Cette œuvre sera incluse au Catalogue critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin actuellement en préparation par le Comité Rodin, en collaboration avec la Galerie Brame & Lorenceau sous la direction de Jérôme Le Blay, sous le numéro d'archive 1998-417B.

Galerie Haussmann (Gustave Danthon), Paris

Madame J. Danthon, Paris

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 24, 1933, lot 64 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, France

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 8, 1958, lot 64

Marcel & Liliane Pollak, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Private collection, France (by descent from the above)

Sotheby's, New York, November 29, 1994, lot 30 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired at the above sale)

Anne Faggionato Fine Arts, London

Christie's, London, December 9, 1998, lot 196

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Athena T. Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, n.n. p. 91

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, fig. 72-76-4, p. 437, illustrated

New York, Museum of Modern Art & San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Auguste Rodin, 1963, no. 11, illustrated in the catalogue

Paris, Musée Rodin, 1898: Le Balzac de Rodin, 1998