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JULES MASTBAUM FAMILY COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Masque d'un vieux

signed on the left side of the neck 'A. Rodin', inscribed with foundry mark on the right side of the neck 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur.Paris.'--with raised signature inside 'A. Rodin'--bronze with brown patina
Height: 7 7/8in. (20.cm.)

Original version executed circa 1885; this bronze version cast
1925-1926

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris (acquired by Jules Mastbaum, 1926)

Literature

J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 606-608, no. 113 (another cast illustrated, p. 608)

Lot Essay

This sculpture has also been titled Masque de vieillard and Etude pour la tête d'un Bourgeois de Calais. Mr. Mastbaum ordered and received two casts of this subject for the Musée Rodin, and a third was cast for the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, in 1930 on the occasion of a Rodin retrospective.