Buste de Victor Hugo dit, à l'illustre maître

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Victor Hugo dit, à l'illustre maître
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the left shoulder); inscribed with foundry mark, dated and inscribed '.Georges Rudier Fondeur. Paris © by Musée Rodin 1955' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 21 in. (53.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1883; this bronze version cast in 1955

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
World House Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 1955).
Galerie Charles & André Bailly, Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 October 1989, lot 1.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 508 (marble version illustrated, p. 509).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 432-433 (other casts 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 2017-5243B.

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