Petit torse de l'un des fils d'Ugolin

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Petit torse de l'un des fils d'Ugolin
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin No 4' (on the right leg), stamped '© BY MUSÉE Rodin 1981' (underneath), and stamped with the foundry mark 'E.GODARD Fondr' (on the edge of the left leg)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 9 1/2 in. (24.2 cm.)
Conceived circa 1882 and cast in bronze by the Godard Foundry in an edition of eleven between 1981 and 1982, this example cast in 1981

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S.798, pp. 699-700 (another cast illustrated p. 699).

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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 2015-4820B.

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