Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste de Suzon, réduction no. 4

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Suzon, réduction no. 4
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the left side); inscribed with foundry mark 'Cie des Bronzes Bruxelles' (on the right side) and numbered '3455' (on the back)
bronze with light brown patina
Height: 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.)
Conceived between 1873-1875; this bronze version cast between 1900-1939

Provenance

Private collection, Connecticut.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 206.
R. Descharnes and J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 46 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 86.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 582 (larger bronze version illustrated, fig. 106-2; dated 1872).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonn de l'oeuvre sculpt, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 84, no. 64 (marble version illustrated, p. 85).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 447, no. 129 (larger bronze version illustrated, fig. 370).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 662-665, no. S.961 (larger bronze version illustrated, pp. 662, 664-665).

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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 2011-3359B.

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