Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Main gauche No. 35, petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main gauche No. 35, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the wrist); inscribed, dated and inscribed with foundry mark '© by musée Rodin 1964 G Rudier Paris' (on the back of the wrist)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 5½ in. (14 cm.)
Conceived between 1890 and 1908; this bronze version cast in 1964

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Edgardo Acosta Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, June 1964).
Valley House Gallery, Texas.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 2 October 1990, lot 15.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2003-311B.

Main gauche No. 35, petit modèle is one of Rodin's few studies of the female hand. It is likely a study for the left hand of the female figure in his sculpture Baiser (see lot 360), which gracefully wraps around her partner's neck.

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