Tête du génie du repos éternel dite aussi Tête du génie funéraire

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête du génie du repos éternel dite aussi Tête du génie funéraire
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side); dated and inscribed '1972 © by Musée Rodin' (on the underside of the neck); inscribed with foundry mark '.G. Rudier. .Fond. Paris.' (on the back of the base)
bronze with black patina
Height: 6½ in. (16.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1899; this bronze version cast in 1972

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, June 1973.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, pp. 87-88, no. 240 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, pp. 105-106, no. 274 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1931, p. 127, no. 323 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1938, p. 100, no. 259 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 100, no. 292bis (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 613-614, no. 118 (another cast illustrated, p. 615).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 395, no. S. 652 (another cast illustrated; dated 1898).

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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 2007V1179B.

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