Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Torse d'Adèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Torse d'Adèle
signed on the front 'A. Rodin', inscribed with foundry mark on the back '.Georges Rudier..Fondeur.Paris.'--with raised signature inside 'A. Rodin'
bronze with brown patina
Length: 16 5/8in. (42.2cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1882; this bronze version cast 1952-1955

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris
Alfredo Halegua, Washington, D.C.; sale, Christie's, New York, May 17, 1984, lot 309 (acquired by the present owner)

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 135 (plaster version illustrated, p. 58)
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 89 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 24)
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32-I (plaster version illustrated, p. 246)

Lot Essay

This torso was originally conceived in 1882 and is related to a figure at the top left-hand corner of the tympanum in La porte de l'Enfer. Rodin reused this figure in a modified position in the sculpture L'éternal Printemps (see lot 225).