Auguste Rodin
Faune et faunesse dit aussi Vieux chêne
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Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Faune et faunesse dit aussi Vieux chêne
inscribed A. Rodin A Mon Ami Deschamp and with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris. and numbered 5/8
bronze
height: 15 ¾ in. 40 cm.
Conceived circa 1885; this example cast in 1986 in an edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2011-3686B.
Family of Léon Deschamps, Paris (acquired in 1986)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 June 1998, lot 89
Private Collection, Paris
Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 1998, lot 484 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Virginia (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 1999, lot 203 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New Orleans (acquired at the above sale)
Christie's, New York, 6 November 2013, lot 398 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 34-I, p. 252, illustration of another cast
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 2892, p. 708, illustration of another cast (titled Le Vieille arbre)
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