Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Mouvement de danse, étude type C

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Mouvement de danse, étude type C
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin 3/12' (on the right foot)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 13 5/8 in. (34.9 cm.)
Conceived circa 1911; this bronze version cast in 1953

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Private collection, Paris (July 1954).
Private collection, Buenos Aires (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 6 November 2013, lot 361.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 62 (plaster version illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 252 (plaster version illustrated, p. 251, fig. G; titled Balancing Exercise).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 113 (another cast illustrated, pl. 76).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 536, no. S. 762 (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 2006-1037B.

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