Balzac, étude type C (buste), deuxième version, grand modèle

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, étude type C (buste), deuxième version, grand modèle
signed, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin 1963' (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 12 3/8 in. (31.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1892; this bronze version cast in 1963

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above, February 1964).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, April 1964.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 168-169 (another cast illustrated, p. 169).

Exhibited

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, Métamorphoses: Dans l'atelier de Rodin, May 2015-September 2016, p. 282, no. 19 (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 2018-5780B.

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