Pas de deux, étude type B

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Pas de deux, étude type B
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin no 3' (on the front of the raised foot); inscribed and dated '© by Musée Rodin 1964' (on the sole of one foot); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the sole of the other foot)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm.)
Conceived circa 1911 and cast by Georges Rudier in an edition of thirteen between 1964-1966; this bronze version cast in 1964

Provenance

Galerie Renou et Poyet, Paris.
F. Kleinberger, New York.
Dr. Henry Roland, London, by whom acquired in 1965, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1964 (the plaster illustrated pl. 18).
D. Sutton, Triumphant Satyr:The World of Auguste Rodin, London, 1966, no. 69, p. 105 (the plaster illustrated p. 108).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 510, p. 536 (another cast illustrated).

Exhibited

Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Museum (in collaboration with the The Arts Council), Rodin, May - July 1967, no. 37, p. 33 (illustrated).
Folkestone, Art Centre, The Roland Collection, March - May 1975, no. 76.
Surrey, West Surrey College of Art & Design, Works from the Roland Collection, November - December 1975, no. 52; this exhibition later travelled to London, Camden Arts Centre, no. 113; Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Museum, no. 21; Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, no. 74; York, City Art Gallery, no. 74; Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 74; Milton Keynes, Central Art Gallery, no. 74 and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, no. 74.
Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery (in collaboration with The Arts Council), Sculpture's Dance, December 1983 - January 1984 (illustrated pl. 28, pp. 36-37); this exhibition later travelled to Bradford, Cartwright Hall; Stoke, Museum and Art Gallery and Sheffield, The Mappin Art Gallery.

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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 2016-5087B.

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