Nu féminin assis se tenant le pied gauche dit aussi "étude pour Devant la Mer"

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Nu féminin assis se tenant le pied gauche dit aussi "étude pour Devant la Mer"
signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'A. Rodin N^o 7 E. GODARD Fondr' (on the back of the rock); dated and inscribed '© BY MUSÉE RODIN 1973' (on the left side of the rock)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 4 ¼ in. (10.7 cm.)
Length: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1907; this bronze version cast in 1973

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Private collection, France (acquired from the above, January 1976); sale, SGL Enchères, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 21 May 2017, lot 191.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 557 (another cast 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 2017-5308B.

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