Property from the Collection of William and Eleanor Wood Prince, Chicago, Illinois

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Polyphème

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Polyphème
signed and indistinctly inscribed 'A. Rodin c by Musée Rodin' (on the front) and inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1888; this bronze version cast in 1951

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above, October 1959).

Literature

I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 92.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 212, no. 23 (plaster version illustrated, p. 213).
A. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 276 (plaster version illustrated, fig. 223).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 599, no. S.640 (another cast illustrated).

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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 Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2008-1972B.

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