Property from a Private Collection
Auguste Rodin
Main gauche no. 2 or Main de pianiste
Auction Closed
March 5, 04:45 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Main gauche no. 2 or Main de pianiste
inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.
bronze
height: 12.5 cm. 4⅞ in.
Conceived circa 1900-1905; this example cast between 1930 and 1952. The present work is from an edition of 6 to 8 cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry, Paris in addition to 14 to 17 known examples.
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 2007-1223B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Peridot Gallery, New York
Mrs. Louise Reinhardt Smith, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York (acquired as a bequest from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 4 October 2012, lot 11 (consigned by the above and sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks from the Louise Reinhardt Smith Collection, 1995, n.n., pp. 60-61, illustrated in colour (titled Hand)
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