Nu féminin debout dit aussi "Le Jour, Le jour, étude sans bras ni tête"

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Nu féminin debout dit aussi "Le Jour, Le jour, étude sans bras ni tête"
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1958' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1882; this bronze version cast in 1958

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Huguette Bérès, Paris (acquired from the above, March 1959).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (acquired from the above, 1959).
Acquired from the above by the late owner.

Literature

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 304-305, no. 49-51-1 (another cast illustrated, p. 305).
M. Lambraki-Plaka, O Rontenkai h Arcadia ellhniki tecnk, Athens, 1985 (another cast illustrated, fig. 29).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 150, no. 35.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 477 (another cast illustrated).

Exhibited

Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens (on extended loan).
The Amarillo Museum of Art, Achievement in Art, The Collection of Montgomery H.W. Ritchie, January-March 2017, p. 67 (illustrated in color, p. 47).

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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 2017-5619B.

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