Lot Essay
This drawing is related to other multi-figure compositions which the artist executed while designing the Gates of Hell.
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'enfant prodigue
pen, India ink, brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache on paper laid down on paper
7 x 5in. (17.8 x 12.7cm.)
Painted 1880-1884
L'enfant prodigue
pen, India ink, brush and gray wash heightened with white gouache on paper laid down on paper
7 x 5in. (17.8 x 12.7cm.)
Painted 1880-1884
Provenance
Beuret Family, Paris
Claude Roger-Marx, Paris
Jean Cau, Paris
Claude Roger-Marx, Paris
Jean Cau, Paris
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Pour mon plaisir, May-July, 1982, no. 133 (illustrated)