Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Main droite index pointé dite no. 27

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main droite index pointé dite no. 27
signed and inscribed with foundry mark 'A. Rodin Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the wrist)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 5½ in. (14 cm.)
Conceived in 1885-1890; this bronze version cast in 1960-1962

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Edgardo Acosta Gallery, La Jolla (acquired from the above, 1963).

Lot Essay

Musée du Louvre, ed., Rodin inconnu, Paris, 1962, no. 183 (terracotta version illustrated; as Main de Saint-Jean Baptiste).
Musée Rodin, ed., Rodin, les mains, les chirurgiens, Paris, 1983, p. 35, no. 57 (plaster version illustrated).

Main droite index pointé dite no. 27

Lot Essay

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