Torse de femme, étude type A, petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Torse de femme, étude type A, petit modèle
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin no. 5 © by Musée Rodin 1970' (on the left leg); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris' (on the back)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 9 5/8 in. (24.2 cm.)
Conceived before 1900 and cast in bronze by the Musée Rodin in a numbered edition of thirteen between 1967 and 1979; this bronze version cast in June 1970

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Gérald Cramer, Lausanne, by whom acquired from the above in January 1971.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2001, lot 192.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze: catalogue des oeuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 684 (another cast illustrated).

Special Notice

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Sale Room Notice

Please note that the dimensions stated in the catalogue include the base. The height of the bronze is 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.).

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Lot Essay

The Comité Auguste Rodin under the direction of Jérome Le Blay will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin Catalogue critique de
l'oeuvre sculpté under the number 1999-703B.

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