细节
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de Balzac au front dégagé et au menton fendu dit aussi Tête type H
signed, numbered, inscribed and dated 'A. Rodin No 9 .© by musée Rodin 1980.' (on the right shoulder); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the left shoulder); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 12 in. (30.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1894; this bronze version cast in 1980
来源
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Eric Sabers, New York (acquired from the above, February 1985).
Gertrude Stein Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 6 October 1988, lot 4.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
出版
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 173-174 (another cast illustrated).