Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Eve aux longs cheveux

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Eve aux longs cheveux
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin no 12' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr' (on the back of the base); inscribed and dated '© By MUSEE RODIN 1976' (on the right side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 13½ in. (34.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1912; this bronze version cast in October 1976

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Mme de Rybeiro, Paris (acquired from the above, April 1978).
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1980.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 344, no. S. 637 (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 2013-4160B.

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