Esquisse pour La chute d’un ange dite aussi Illusions reçues par la Terre, 1er état

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Esquisse pour La chute d’un ange dite aussi Illusions reçues par la Terre, 1^erétat
signed and numbered ‘A. Rodin No 7/8’ (on the top of the rock); inscribed, dated and stamped with the Coubertin foundry mark ‘© By Musée Rodin 1984’ (on the back)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 15 in. (38.1 cm.)
Width: 27 3/8 in. (69.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1895; this bronze version cast in 1984

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, December 1985.

Literature

I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 106.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 528-529 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 262 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, Paris, 2013, p. 229 (marble version illustrated in color, pl. 218 and pp. 230-231).

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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 2020-6213B.

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