Tête de Balzac, dernier état, version au col coupé derrière l'oreille

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de Balzac, dernier état, version au col coupé derrière l'oreille
signed 'A. Rodin' and inscribed with foundry mark 'Georges.Rudier Fondeur PARIS' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1897; this bronze version cast in 1953

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
M. Planes, Paris (acquired from the above, December 1955).
World House, New York (acquired from the above, December 1955).
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1957.

Literature

A.T. Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, p. 91, no. IV (W) (another cast illustrated, pl. 27 and on the cover).
A. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 375 (another cast illustrated, fig. 321).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, p. 177, vol. I, no. S. 765 (another cast 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 2010-3227B.

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