
Four Rodin Bronzes from The Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection
Cariatide à la pierre, petit modèle
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March 4, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Cariatide à la pierre, petit modèle
inscribed A. Rodin
bronze
height: 43.8 cm. 17¼ in.
Conceived circa 1881-82; this example probably cast by Griffoul et Lorge between 1889 and 1893.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l’œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2024-7314B.
James Graham & Sons, New York
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, New York (probably acquired from the above in the 1950s)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1961 by the present owner
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 37, p. 35, another cast illustrated
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, nos. 52 and 53, p. 40, another cast illustrated
Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 80, another cast illustrated
Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, pl. 75, p. 59, marble illustrated
Athena Tacha Spear, A Supplement to Rodin Sculpture in The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1974, pl. 108S, plaster illustrated
John Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, nos. 22-26, pp. 51-52, other versions illustrated
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin’s Studio. A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, pls. 34-35, other casts illustrated
David Finn and Marie Busco, eds., Rodin and His Contemporaries, The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, p. 222, another cast illustrated
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin: The Gates of Hell, Paris, 2002, no. 93, p. 72, limestone version illustrated; no. 94, p. 73, another cast illustrated
Albert E. Elsen and Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin’s Art. The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 229-33, other casts illustrated
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 244-49, illustrations of other casts
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