Mort d'Adonis

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Mort d'Adonis
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the front); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris (on the back); inscribed and dated 'by Musée Rodin 1956' (on the right side); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown and dark green patina
Length: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.)
Conceived in plaster in the 1880s; this bronze version cast in an edition of twelve between 1918 and 1966; this work cast in 1956

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 182 (marble version illustrated, p. 71)
I. Jianou & C. Goldschneider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 102.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 43 (another cast illustrated p. 278).
R. Butler, 'Rodin & his American Collectors', in G.P. Weisberg & L.S. Dixon (eds.), The Documented Image, Visions in Art History, Syracuse, 1987, pp. 97 & 100-101.
A. Le Normand-Romain (ed.), The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 530 (another cast illustrated).

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 2010-3320B.

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