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Main droite semi fermée dite no. 30
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main droite semi fermée dite no. 30
signed and inscribed with foundry mark 'A. Rodin Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the wrist)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 5½ in. (14 cm.)
Conceived in 1885-1890; this bronze version cast in 1960-1962
Main droite semi fermée dite no. 30
signed and inscribed with foundry mark 'A. Rodin Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the wrist)
bronze with brown and green 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).
Edgardo Acosta Gallery, La Jolla (acquired from the above, 1963).
Literature
Musée du Louvre, ed., Rodin inconnu, Paris, 1962, p. 80, no. 176 (terracotta version illustrated; as Main de painiste).
J. de Caso and P. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 328-329, no. 71 (another cast illustrated).
Musée Rodin, ed., Rodin, les mains, les chirurgiens, Paris, 1983, p. 56, no. 29 (plaster version illustrated).
J. de Caso and P. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 328-329, no. 71 (another cast illustrated).
Musée Rodin, ed., Rodin, les mains, les chirurgiens, Paris, 1983, p. 56, no. 29 (plaster version illustrated).