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Faunesse debout – version au rocher simple dite aussi « Phryné »
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Faunesse debout – version au rocher simple dite aussi « Phryné »
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the left side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Perzinka. fondeur' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown and red patina
Height: 23 1/4 in. (59 cm.)
Conceived circa 1884; this bronze version cast circa 1896
Faunesse debout – version au rocher simple dite aussi « Phryné »
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the left side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Perzinka. fondeur' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown and red patina
Height: 23 1/4 in. (59 cm.)
Conceived circa 1884; this bronze version cast circa 1896
Provenance
M. Desèvres, France (by 1918).
Galerie Haussmann (Gustave Danthon), Paris (acquired from the above, 1927).
Hugo Perls, Berlin and Paris (acquired from the above, 1929).
Transferred to the Jeu de Paume in Paris on 31 October 1942, kept at the Mobilier National, Paris, and restituted to Hugo Perls, New York, between November 1947 and May 1956.
By descent from the above to the present owner, circa 1970.
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 2022-6565B.
Galerie Haussmann (Gustave Danthon), Paris (acquired from the above, 1927).
Hugo Perls, Berlin and Paris (acquired from the above, 1929).
Transferred to the Jeu de Paume in Paris on 31 October 1942, kept at the Mobilier National, Paris, and restituted to Hugo Perls, New York, between November 1947 and May 1956.
By descent from the above to the present owner, circa 1970.
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 2022-6565B.
Literature
Ministère de la Culture, Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la Guerre 1939-1945, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 408, no. 906.
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 141, no. 55 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 55).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 628-629 (another cast illustrated, fig. 5).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 141, no. 55 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 55).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 628-629 (another cast illustrated, fig. 5).
Exhibited
Kunsthalle Basel, Société des amis des Arts de Bâle, Auguste Rodin: Exposition de sculptures, aquarelles, dessins et estampes originales du maitre, April 1918, no. 46 (titled Phryné).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Rondom Rodin: Tentoonstelling Honderd Jaar Fransche Sculptuur, July-September 1939, p. 105, no. 288.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Rondom Rodin: Tentoonstelling Honderd Jaar Fransche Sculptuur, July-September 1939, p. 105, no. 288.