Etude pour Le Secret

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Etude pour Le Secret
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the front); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1910; this bronze version cast between 1940-1952

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 7 June 1984, lot 21A.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 109, no. 337 (marble version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 94.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadephia, Philadephia, 1976, p. 636, no. 126-2 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 252 (another cast illustrated, fig. 1).

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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 2017-5613B.

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