Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Etude de Main gauche dite Main no. 39

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Etude de Main gauche dite Main no. 39
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 5' (on the right side of the wrist) and dated and inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr C MUSÉE Rodin 1975' (on the bottom of the wrist)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885-1900; this bronze version cast in 1975

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Margaret Gruen Longacre, Cincinnati (acquired from the above, August 1975).
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, p. 498, no. S.500 (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 2011-3365B.

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