Le Jour

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Le Jour
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No. 2' (on the top of the base); dated and inscribed with foundry mark '1973 © BY MUSEE RODIN E. GODARD' (along the side of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 10 3/8 in. (26.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1890; this bronze version cast in 1973

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Gérald Cramer, Geneva (acquired from the above, 1974).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 476, no. S. 498 (another cast illustrated).

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 2012-3932B.

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