Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste de Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle, 3ème version

細節
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle, 3ème version
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the front) and inscribed with foundry mark 'ALEXIS RUDIER FONDEUR PARIS.' (on the back); and with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with black patina
Height: 6¼ in. (16 cm.)
Conceived circa 1893; this bronze version cast circa 1918
來源
Mercedès Santamarina, Buenos Aires (acquired circa 1918-1920).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 November 1992, lot 25.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 May 1993, lot 132.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
出版
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 188 (another cast illustrated, p. 73).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 218 (another cast illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 105 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 105.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 455.

拍品專文

See note to lot 223.