Buste colossal de Saint Jean-Baptiste

细节

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste colossal de Saint Jean-Baptiste
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 7/8' (on the right shoulder); inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr' (on the back); inscribed and dated 'C BY MUSEE Rodin 1986' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 21 5/8 in. (55 cm.)
Conceived in 1878; this bronze version cast in 1986

来源

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Private collection, Paris; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 1999, lot 222A.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

出版

R. Chaeruy, "A. Rodin, Essai de nomenclature de ses oeuvres par ordre chronologique," Verein für Kunst, 1906, p. 6.
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 124, no. 102a (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 642, no. S. 2922 (another cast illustrated).

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 2011-3643B.