Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Masque de l'Iris, messagère des dieux, petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Masque de l'Iris, messagère des dieux, petit modèle
signed, numbered, inscribed with foundry mark and dated 'A. Rodin N7 c by musée Rodin 1965' (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark 'G Rudier Fon' Paris' (on the left side)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 4½ in. (11.4 cm.)
Conceived by 1894; this bronze version cast in 1965

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
M. Geladakis, France (acquired by the above, May 1967).
Acquired by the present owner, 2003.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 456, no. S 656 (another cast illustrated).

Exhibited

Moscow, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Leningrad, The Hermitage Museum, Rodin et son temps, June-October 1966.
London, Nevill Keating Gallery, Rodin. Sculptures, drawings and photographs, June 2005, p. 20-21 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2004-481B.

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