Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Nijinsky, étude

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Nijinsky, étude
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No. 8' (on the front of the leg); dated and inscribed '1959 © by musée Rodin' (on the back of the leg)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1912; this bronze version cast in 1959

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above, 1959).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner.

Literature

C. Goldscheider, "Rodin et la danse," Art de France, 1963, p. 333, no. III (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 143 (another cast illustrated).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin, London, 1964 (another cast illustrated, pl. 22).
D. Sutton, Triumphant Satyr, The World of Auguste Rodin, London, 1966 (another cast illustrated in color on the frontispiece).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 113.
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 256-257 (plaster version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, p. 143 (another cast illustrated). J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 45 (another cast illustrated, pl. 4).
A.E. Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, p. 143, no. 334 (another cast illustrated, pl. 6.46).
R. Crone and S. Salzmann, ed., Rodin, Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, no. 10 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 550-552, no. S. 803 (another cast illustrated, p. 350).

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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 2009-2569B.

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