Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Main crispée gauche avec figure implorante

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main crispée gauche avec figure implorante
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 9' (on the front of the base); inscribed, dated and inscribed with foundry mark '© BY MUSEE RODIN 1973 E. GODARD Fondr' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 17 3/8 in. (44.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1906-1907; this bronze version cast in 1973

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Maru-ka Co., Osaka (acquired from the above, July 1974).
Private collection, Mie, Japan (circa 2008).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 229 (plaster version illustrated).
I. Ross and A. Snow, eds., Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, pp. 131 and 188, no. 121 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 130, pl. 121).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 593, no. 193 (another cast illustrated, p. 594, fig. 480; plaster version illustrated, p. 595, fig. 481).
A.E. Elsen, Introduction to the Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, 2003, p. 27, no. 31 (another cast illustrated, p. 26).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 499, no. S. 791 (another cast illustrated; plaster version illustrated, p. 500, fig. 5).

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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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2013-4210B.

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