Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Masque de femme au nez retroussé, petit modèle -- variante sur piédouche

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Masque de femme au nez retroussé, petit modèle -- variante sur piédouche
signed, inscribed and dated 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin 1959.' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'G. Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the interior)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 5¼ in. (13.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885-1890; this bronze version cast in 1959

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above, October 1960).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 60, no. 125 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 611, no. 111-171-1 (another cast illustrated).
J. de Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 33 (another cast illustrated, p. 190).

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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 2012-4053B.

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