Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Suzon

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Suzon
signed on the left side 'A Rodin.'
marble
Height (excluding base): 11¾in. (29.8cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1875; this marble version executed at a later date

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 30 (plaster version illustrated)
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 46 (bronze version illustrated)
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, no. 64
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 106-2 (bronze version illustrated, p. 582)
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté: 1840-1880, Lausanne and Paris, 1989, vol. I, no. 64 (another marble illustrated, p. 84)

Lot Essay

Rodin entered negotiations to create a bronze bust of a young girl with the Compagnie des Bronzes in Brussels in 1872. The foundry made examples of Suzon in bronze, marble and porcelain until 1939. The influence of Rodin's teacher Carrier-Beleuse is recognizable in Suzon's smooth surfaces, the attention given to detail and the sculptor's romantic approach to his subject.