Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Property from a Distinguished French Collection
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

L'Eternelle idole, petit modèle

细节
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'Eternelle idole, petit modèle
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin 2/12' (on the left side); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur. Paris.' (on the right side)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1889; this bronze version cast in 1930
来源
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Gilbert de Voisiris, Paris (acquired from the above, 1937).
Paul Alfassa, Paris.
By descent from the above to the previous owner.
出版
R.M. Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Berlin, 1928, pp. 58-61.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 47 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 10).
M. Kausch, Auguste Rodin, Eros und Leidenschaft, Milan, 1996, pp. 53-54, no. 22.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 328-330 (other casts illustrated).

荣誉呈献

David Kleiweg de Zwaan
David Kleiweg de Zwaan

拍品专文

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 2009-2886B.