Tête de jeune enfant dit aussi "enfant de Mme Merrill"

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de jeune enfant dit aussi "enfant de Mme Merrill"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N^o 8' (on the left side of the neck); inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fond^r' (on the right side of the neck); inscribed and dated '© BY MUSÉE Rodin 1981' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1908; this bronze version cast in 1981

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
B. Gerald Cantor, New York (acquired from the above, May 1981).
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, New York (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 9 March 2011, lot 12.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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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 Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2008-2160B.

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