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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED FAMILY COLLECTION, NEW YORK
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
L’un des Bourgeois de Calais: Tête de Pierre de Wiessant, moyen modèle
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
L’un des Bourgeois de Calais: Tête de Pierre de Wiessant, moyen modèle
signed ‘A. Rodin’ (on the right side of the neck); inscribed with foundry mark ‘Alexis Rudier. Fondeur. Paris’ (on the back of the neck)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885-1886; this bronze version cast between 1930 and 1950
L’un des Bourgeois de Calais: Tête de Pierre de Wiessant, moyen modèle
signed ‘A. Rodin’ (on the right side of the neck); inscribed with foundry mark ‘Alexis Rudier. Fondeur. Paris’ (on the back of the neck)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885-1886; this bronze version cast between 1930 and 1950
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Paul Philippson, Great Britain; sale, Christie’s, London, 4 July 1975, lot 219.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
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 2010-3308B.
Paul Philippson, Great Britain; sale, Christie’s, London, 4 July 1975, lot 219.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
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 2010-3308B.
Literature
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 97-98 (another cast illustrated, pl. 47).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, pp. 119-120 (another cast illustrated, pl. 45).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 376 and 396-397, no. 68 (another cast illustrated, p. 381).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 141-142, no. 31 (larger bronze version illustrated, pp. 141-142, fig. 109).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 98 and 237-240 (other versions illustrated; plaster version illustrated, p. 239, fig. 25)
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, pp. 119-120 (another cast illustrated, pl. 45).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 376 and 396-397, no. 68 (another cast illustrated, p. 381).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 141-142, no. 31 (larger bronze version illustrated, pp. 141-142, fig. 109).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 98 and 237-240 (other versions illustrated; plaster version illustrated, p. 239, fig. 25)