Cariatide à la Pierre, petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Cariatide à la Pierre, petit modèle
signed 'Rodin' (on the right side of the base); stamped with foundry mark 'A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 17 ¼ in. (43.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1881-1882

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2001, lot 1.
Acquired at the above sale by Achim Moeller Fine Art on behalf of John C. Whitehead.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 27, no. 63 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Monaco, 1947, p. 141 (another cast illustrated, pl. 43).
J.-F. Chabrun and R. Descharnes, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 80 (another cast illustrated).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 133 and 281, no. 56 (another cast illustrated, p. 134).
C. Goldscheider and I. Jianou, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 88.
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, p. 117 (another cast illustrated, pl. 20).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 51 and 53 (other casts illustrated, p. 52, figs. 22-26).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Oxford, 1980, p. 168 (another cast illustrated, pls. 34-35).
M. Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries, The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, p. 222 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 229, 232-233 and 243, no. 56 (another cast illustrated, p. 230, fig. 178).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 245-246, no. S. 477 (another cast illustrated, p. 244).

Exhibited

Andros, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Auguste Rodin-Camille Claudel, July-September 1996, no. 10 (illustrated).
Hokuto, The Kiyoharu Shirakaba Museum of Art and Yoshii Foundation, Exposition Rodin & Shirakaba, April-May 2000, p. 20, no. VI (illustrated).

Sale Room Notice

Please note the below amended exhibition history for the present lot:
Andros, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Auguste Rodin-Camille Claudel, July-September 1996, no. 10 (illustrated).
Hokuto, The Kiyoharu Shirakaba Museum of Art and Yoshii Foundation, Exposition Rodin & Shirakaba, April-May 2000, p. 20, no. VI (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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 1999-92B.

The original composition of Cariatide à la Pierre was conceived in 1881 as an element at the top of the left pilaster of La porte d'enfer, where it crouches under folds of drapery from above. It proved to be highly popular, and in January 1894, Mme Dumon commissioned the first variant, an example in stone. In total, four versions were carried out between 1894 and 1907, in addition to which Rodin simultaneously conceived another version of this caryatid composition, Cariatide tombée portant son urne.

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