Petit buste de la martyre

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Petit buste de la martyre
signed, numbered and inscribed 'A.Rodin. N^o1 © by musée Rodin.1962' (on the left shoulder); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier. Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the right shoulder); with the raised signature 'A Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885 and cast in bronze by Georges Rudier in 1962

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Alan Roger, London.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 2 October 1990, lot 28.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 107.
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 91.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 18-7 (another cast illustrated p. 192).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 502 (another cast illustrated).

Exhibited

London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Rodin, June - July 1967, no. 7 (illustrated on the front and back covers).
London, The Hayward Gallery, Rodin, Sculpture and Drawings, January - April 1970, no. 25 (illustrated p. 40).

Special Notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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 2010-3325B.

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