Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Balzac, dernière étude pour la tête

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, dernière étude pour la tête
signed 'A. Rodin' (at the right side of the back of the head)
bronze with green-brown patina
High: 6½ in. (16.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1897 and cast circa 1897-1900 by Francois Rudier in an edition of at least 60

Provenance

Edward G. Robinson; sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1973, lot 1.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1993, lot 11.

Literature

A. E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 93 (terracotta and plaster versions illustrated, p. 90).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 104-105 (another cast illustrated).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 76, p. 456 (another cast illustrated, p. 431).
J. de Caso & P. B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 46 (another cast illustrated, pp. 238-239).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze: catalogue des oeuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, p. 177 (another cast illustrated).

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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 Comit Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jrme Le Blay under the archive number 2013-4225B.

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