Torse féminin assis sans tête, petit modèle

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Torse féminin assis sans tête, petit modèle
signed, numbered, inscribed and dated and stamped with the Coubertin foundry mark 'A. Rodin n^o 10 © by musée Rodin 1979' (on the left thigh)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1900; this bronze version cast in 1979

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Gerald Cramer, Geneva (acquired from the above, March 1981).
Claus Griesser, Switzerland (acquired from the above).
Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica.
bG Gallery, Santa Monica.
Acquired from the above 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. 688 (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 1999-704B.

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