Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) , Balzac, étude de nu, dite "Type G" | Christie's
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Balzac, étude de nu, dite "Type G"

Price realised USD 50,000
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USD 30,000 – USD 50,000
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Balzac, étude de nu, dite

Price realised USD 50,000
Closed: 2 May 2012
Price realised USD 50,000
Closed: 2 May 2012
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, étude de nu, dite "Type G"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 5/8' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr' (on the left side of the base); inscribed and dated 'c BY MUSEE Rodin 1985' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 32½ in. (82.6 cm.)
Conceived circa 1893; this bronze version cast in 1985
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Drs. Stan and Dragoslava Vesselinovitch, Chicago (acquired from the above, December 1986).
Private collection, Chicago (by descent from the above).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2009.
Literature
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, pp. 395-397, no. 104 (larger version illustrated, pp. 395-396).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 170-171, no. S. 1081 (another cast illustrated, p. 170).

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