Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste de Suzon, réduction n°3

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Suzon, réduction n°3
incised 'A RODIN' (on the left side); inscribed 'C^ie des Bronzes Bruxelles' (on the right side)
bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 8 in. (20.3 cm.)
Conceived between 1873 and 1875; this bronze version cast by 1939

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1997, lot 96.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 206.
R. Descharnes and J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 46 (larger bronze version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 85.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 582 (larger bronze version illustrated, fig. 106-2).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 84, no. 64 (other versions illustrated, p. 85).
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, p. 447, no. 129 (larger bronze version illustrated, fig. 370).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 662-665, no. S. 961 (larger bronze version 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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2015-4607B.

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