Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Tête de Camille Claudel au bonnet

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de Camille Claudel au bonnet
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N° 11' (on the front of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back); inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1971.' (on the right side)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in 1971

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Netsu International, Paris (acquired from the above, April 1972).
Seibu Department Store, Tokyo (acquired from the above, May 1972).
Acquired by the family of the present owner, circa 1980.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 58, no. 136 (pâte de verre version illustrated; dated 1889).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 592-593, no. 108-2 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 265.

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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 2017-5611B.

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