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AUGUSTE RODIN

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AUGUSTE RODIN

Masque d'Hanaks

signed adn inscribed on the left side A. Rodin © by Musee Rodin 1956, inscribed on the right side Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris--with raised signature inside A. Rodin--bronze with brown patina
Height: 7½ in. (19 cm.)

Original terracotta version executed circa 1908; this bronze version cast in 1956 in an edition of 12

Provenance

Musee Rodin, Paris
The Arcade Gallery Ltd., London (1959)

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musee Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 371 (another cast illustrated p. 123)
I. Jianou and C. Golscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 111
L. Goldshceider, Rodin Sculpture, London, 1970, p.125 (another cast illustrated, pl. 84)
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 97, 98-2 (another cast illustrated, p. 551)

Lot Essay

Rodin met the Japanese dancer Hanako (ohta Hisa, 1868-1945) through the American dancer Loie Fuller in 1908. He was impressed byt he intensity of emotion he saw in Hanako's features, and at one time considered using a study of Hanako as the starting-point for a portrait of Beethoven.