Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Néréides, grand modèle dit aussi "Trois sirènes" ou "La Vague"

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Néréides, grand modèle dit aussi "Trois sirènes" ou "La Vague"
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the front of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier Fondeur. Paris.' (on the left side of the base); inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1968' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with black and green patina
Height: 17 1/8 in. (43.2 cm.)
Length: 17 ¾ in. (45.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1887; this bronze version cast in 1968

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo (acquired from the above, January 1969).
Private collection, Japan (1976).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

T.H. Bartlett, "Auguste Rodin-VII: The Door," The American Architect and Building News, vol. XXV, no. 698, 11 May 1889, p. 225.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 63, nos. 150-151 (plaster cast illustrated).
J. Cladel, Rodin, sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, p. 173.
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 92 (marble version illustrated, pl. 27).
A.T. Spear, Rodin Sculpture in The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, p. 99, no. XIII (another cast illustrated, p. 60, pl. 76; marble versions illustrated, p. 61, pls. 77-79).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 215-219, no. 24 (plaster cast illustrated, p. 216, fig. a; another cast illustrated, pp. 217-218, fig. b).
L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, Rodin, The Cantor Gift to The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1987, p. 77, no. 16 (another cast illustrated, pp. 24 and 76).
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. 519 (marble version and detail of La porte de l'enfer illustrated, p. 522, figs. 433 and 434 respectively).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 652-655, no. S. 1069 (another cast illustrated, pp. 652 and 654, fig. 2; marble version illustrated, p. 654, figs. 2 and 4).

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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 2014-4540B.

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