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 1999-702B.
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Torse d'homme, étude type A, petit modèle
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Torse d'homme, 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: 10 in. (25.2 cm.)
Conceived circa 1895-1900 and cast in bronze by the Musée Rodin in a numbered edition of thirteen between 1967 and 1975; this bronze version cast in June 1970
Torse d'homme, étude type A, petit modèle
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin n
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 10 in. (25.2 cm.)
Conceived circa 1895-1900 and cast in bronze by the Musée Rodin in a numbered edition of thirteen between 1967 and 1975; 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 193.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Galerie Gérald Cramer, Lausanne, by whom acquired from the above in January 1971.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2001, lot 193.
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. 691 (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 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.).
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