Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste de baigneuse Zoubaloff

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de baigneuse Zoubaloff
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin no 12' (on the right shoulder) and inscribed and dated '.C by musée Rodin.1973.' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 3¾ in. (9.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1888; this bronze version cast in 1973

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Margaret Gruen Longacre, Cincinnati (acquired from the above, May 1973).
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. 1, p. 156 (another cast illustrated, p. 157).

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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 2011-3364B.

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