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Auguste Rodin
Éternelle Idole, Agrandissement dit aussi Grand Modèle
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Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Éternelle Idole, Agrandissement dit aussi Grand Modèle
inscribed A. Rodin and stamped with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur . Paris. © by Musée Rodin 1972.; stamped with the raised signature A.Rodin
bronze
height: 73 cm. 28¾ in.
Conceived in 1890-91; this reduction conceived in 1893; this example cast by Georges Rudier, Paris in July 1972. This work is from an edition of 9 unnumbered examples cast between 1967 and 1978.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2009-2816B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Contemporary Sculpture Center, Japan (acquired from the above in June 1973)
Private Collection, Japan (from 1977)
Sotheby's, New York, 4 May 2011, lot 185 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 204, p. 77, another cast illustrated
Georges Danthon, Œuvres de Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 235, p. 94, another cast illustrated
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1931, no. 269, p. 109 another cast illustrated
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 240, p. 83, another cast illustrated
Edouard Herriot, Rodin, Paris, 1949, pl. 49, another cast illustrated
Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 46, another cast illustrated
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pl. 58, p. 103, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Homage to Rodin, 1967, no. 34, p. 62, another cast illustrated
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pls. 9-10, p. 47, marble and plaster illustrated
Rainer Crone and Siegfried Salzmann (eds.), Rodin, Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, no. 23, another cast illustrated
Mary Levkoff, Rodin in His Time: The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles and New York, 1994, no. 39, p. 124, another cast illustrated
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. 1, Paris, 2007, p. 329, another cast illustrated
