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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Le secret
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fond. Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 4¾in. (12cm.)
Conceived before 1910, this bronze version cast before 1952
Le secret
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fond. Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 4¾in. (12cm.)
Conceived before 1910, this bronze version cast before 1952
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris 1927, no. 375 (the marble version illustrated p. 375).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris 1962, p. 103 (another version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York 1963, p. 139 (another version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, London 1974, p. 139 (the marble version illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, no. 126 (another version illustrated p. 635).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, San Francisco 1977, no. 4, pp. 316, 319.
Musée Rodin (ed.), Rodin, les mains, les chirurgiens, Paris 1983, nos. 76 & 77 (the plaster and marble versions illustrated pp. 108- 109).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin, Collections du Musée Rodin, Paris 1987, no. 89 (the marble version illustrated p. 210).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris 1962, p. 103 (another version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York 1963, p. 139 (another version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, London 1974, p. 139 (the marble version illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, no. 126 (another version illustrated p. 635).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, San Francisco 1977, no. 4, pp. 316, 319.
Musée Rodin (ed.), Rodin, les mains, les chirurgiens, Paris 1983, nos. 76 & 77 (the plaster and marble versions illustrated pp. 108- 109).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin, Collections du Musée Rodin, Paris 1987, no. 89 (the marble version illustrated p. 210).
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