Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Galatée dit aussi "Nu féminin debout appuyé contre un pilier"

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Galatée dit aussi "Nu féminin debout appuyé contre un pilier"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin 2^e épreuve' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 14½ in. (36.8 cm.)
Conceived by 1889; this bronze version cast in 1921

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Maurice Fenaille, Paris (acquired from the above, May 1921).
M. de Maistre, Paris.
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (acquired from the above, June 1958).
Arthur Keating, Chicago (circa 1960).
By descent from the above to the present owners.

Literature

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 282-286, no. 45 (another cast illustrated; titled Nude Woman (Galatea)).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 622-623 (another cast illustrated, fig. 3; titled Galatea).

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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 2011-3627B.

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