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Esquisse pour les Bénédictions, Modèle pour le Sommet de la 'Tour du Travail'
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Esquisse pour les Bénédictions, Modèle pour le Sommet de la 'Tour du Travail'
signed, dated and stamped with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin © by Musée Rodin 1955 Alexis.Rudier Fondeur.Paris' (around the lower edge of the base)
bronze with brown-green patina
Height: 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.)
Conceived before 1894; this example cast by Alexis Rudier for the Musée Rodin in January 1945
Esquisse pour les Bénédictions, Modèle pour le Sommet de la 'Tour du Travail'
signed, dated and stamped with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin © by Musée Rodin 1955 Alexis.Rudier Fondeur.Paris' (around the lower edge of the base)
bronze with brown-green patina
Height: 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.)
Conceived before 1894; this example cast by Alexis Rudier for the Musée Rodin in January 1945
Provenance
World House Galleries [Herbert Mayer], New York, by whom acquired directly from the Musée Rodin in 1955.
Wuilliez collection, Switzerland.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1996, lot 357.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Wuilliez collection, Switzerland.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1996, lot 357.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 245, p. 97 (marble version illustrated p. 98).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no.
45, pp. 227-228 & 230 (plaster version illustrated p. 226).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 47, pp. 294 & 296 (other versions illustrated pp. 295 & 297).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.595, p. 199 (another version illustrated).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no.
45, pp. 227-228 & 230 (plaster version illustrated p. 226).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 47, pp. 294 & 296 (other versions illustrated pp. 295 & 297).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.595, p. 199 (another version illustrated).
Special Notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Further Details
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 2010-3071B.
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