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Auguste Rodin

Masque de Severine

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917


Masque de Severine

inscribed A. Rodin; numbered 2; with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris and with © BY MUSÉE RODIN 1966

bronze

height: 16 cm. 6¼ in. 

height with marble base: 23.5 cm. 9¼ in.

Conceived circa 1893-94; this example cast by Susse Fondeur, Paris, in 1966. This work is number 2 from an edition of 11 plus 1 zero cast.


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 2024-7303B.

Musée Rodin, Paris

Dominion Gallery, Montréal (acquired from the above in September 1967)

Private Collection, Canada (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, USA

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2023

Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, no. V, pp. 31 and 93, plate 47, another cast illustrated

Jacques de Caso and Patricia Sanders, eds., Rodin's sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 61, pp. 293-294, another cast illustrated

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin. Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 108, pp. 649-650, another cast illustrated