Petite Ombre se coiffant

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Petite Ombre se coiffant
signed ‘A.Rodin’ and with the foundry mark ‘Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris’ (on the back); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 6 5/8 in. (16.7 cm.)
Length: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1888-1890; cast in an edition of 12 by the Georges Rudier foundry between 1953 and 1972 plus one for the Musée Rodin collection; this example among the first cast in 1953.

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in March 1955.
Curt Valentin, New York, by whom acquired from the above.
Private collection, United States.
Charles Wolfson, United States.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 25 February 1992, lot 25.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1926.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 514, pp. 574-575 (another cast illustrated p. 574).

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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 2018-5884B.

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