Vénus, petit modèle dit aussi "Aphrodite, petit modèle"

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Vénus, petit modèle dit aussi "Aphrodite, petit modèle"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N^o 5' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. .Paris.' (on the back of the base); inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1960' (on the right side of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 19 5/8 in. (49.7 cm.)
Conceived between 1889 and 1900; this bronze version cast in 1960

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco Gallery, London (acquired from the above, February 1961).
Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1982, lot 411.
Acquired at the above sale by Achim Moeller Fine Art on behalf of John C. Whitehead.

Literature

Achim Moeller Fine Art, ed., The John C. Whitehead Collection, A Collection in Progress, Late XIX and Early XX Century French Masters, New York, 1987, p. 90 (illustrated in color, p. 91).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 134-135, no. S. 1158 (another cast illustrated).

Exhibited

The Montclair Art Museum, Late XIX and Early XX Century French Masters, The John C. Whitehead Collection, April-June 1989, p. 33, no. 63.
New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, The Whitehead Collection, Late 19th and 20th Century French Masters, A Collection in Progress, April-May 1997, p. 60, no. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 61).

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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 2015-4600B.

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