Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste colossal de Saint Jean-Baptiste

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste colossal de Saint Jean-Baptiste
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin no. 3/8' (on the front right edge); stamped with the foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr' (on the back right edge); inscribed and dated '© BY MUSÉE Rodin 1986' (on the back left edge)
bronze with greenish brown patina
Height: 21 in. (53.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1880, this version in 1906, and cast in 1986 in an numbered edition of 12

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Bruton Gallery, Bruton, Sommerset, by whom acquired from the above in March 1987.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1999, lot 247.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

R. Cheruy, Auguste Rodin, Essai de nomenclature de ses oeuvres par ordre chronologique, Berlin, 1906, p. 6.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 40, pp. 17-18 (another cast illustrated).
L. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 87.
R. Decharnes & J. F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 57 (a smaller version illustrated).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 65-2, p. 365 (terracotta version illustrated).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté Tome I: 1840-1886, Paris, 1989, no. 102a, p. 124 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 2922, p. 642 (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 Comité Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2013-4268B.

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