Eustache de Saint-Pierre, étude de nu

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Eustache de Saint-Pierre, étude de nu
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N^o 3' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris.' (on the right side of the base); inscribed and dated '.© by Musée Rodin. 1964.' (on the front of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 38 ¼ in. (97.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885-1886; this bronze version cast in 1964

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, March 1965.

Literature

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 376, 382-383 and 386 (another cast illustrated, p. 385, fig. 67-69-4).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 228-229, no. S. 388 (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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2015-4724B.

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