Balzac, étude pour la tête avec la mèche retombant à droite dite aussi "d'après le portrait de Bertall"

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, étude pour la tête avec la mèche retombant à droite dite aussi "d'après le portrait de Bertall"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No. 8/8' (below the left ear); stamped with the foundry mark, dated and inscribed 'E. GODARD Fondr © BY MUSEE Rodin 1985' (at the back)
bronze with brown patina with green undertones
height: 10 in. (25.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1894; this bronze cast in 1985 in an edition of twelve

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Montespan, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in March 1986.
Mr. Cheng King Hung, Hong Kong, by whom acquired from the above in May 1986.
Private collection, Japan.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Paris, 3 December 2013, lot 102.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, vol.I, Paris, 2007, no. S. 2003, p. 175 (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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2013-4247B.

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