Frère et soeur

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Frère et soeur
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 15¼ in. (38.7 cm.)
Conceived circa 1890-1891; this bronze version cast circa 1900

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner, circa 1985.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 67, no. 166 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1934, p. 48 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 143, no. 97 (another cast illustrated).
E. Herriot, Rodin, Paris, 1949, no. 36 (another cast illustrated).
M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 49 (another cast illustrated).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, p. 283, no. 107 (another cast illustrated, p. 214).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 104.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 222, no. 25-2 (another cast illustrated, p. 223).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 376-377, no. S 975 (another cast illustrated, p. 376; other versions illustrated, p. 377).

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 2010-3104B.

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