Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste de jeune fille aux fleurs dans les cheveux

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de jeune fille aux fleurs dans les cheveux
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin n^o10' (on the left side); dated and inscribed '1980 © by Musée Rodin' and stamped with the Coubertin foundry mark (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 19 in. (48.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1868; this bronze version cast in 1980

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Bruton Gallery, Somerset and Valentien Gallery, Vienna (acquired from the above, January 1983).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1985.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, pp. 5-6, no. 11 (plaster version illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 576 (another cast illustrated, p. 578, no. 105-I; dated 1865-1870).
L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, Rodin, The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1987, p. 53, no. 5 (another cast illustrated, p. 52; dated 1865-1870).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 94, no. 78a (plaster and terracotta versions illustrated, p. 95; dated circa 1875).
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, p. 448, no. 130 (another cast illustrated, p. 449, fig. 371; dated circa 1875).

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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 2015-4742B.

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