Le Jour

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Le Jour
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N^o 8' (on the top of the base); dated and inscribed '© BY MUSÉE Rodin 1981' (on the left side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fond^r' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1890; this bronze version cast in 1981

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Private collection, France (acquired from the above, September 1982).
Private collection, Belgium.

Literature

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 304 (another version illustrated, p. 305, fig. 49-51-1).
A. Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 2003, p. 184, no. 52bis.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 150, no. 35 (another cast illustrated; dated circa 1882).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 477 (another version illustrated).

Exhibited

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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 2019-6014B.

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