Lot Essay
The Comité Auguste Rodin will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin catalogue critique under the number 2004V503B.
.jpg?w=1)
Buste de Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle dit 'deuxième version'
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle dit 'deuxième version'
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the right side); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the right back); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1893; this bronze version cast between 1940 and 1952
Buste de Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle dit 'deuxième version'
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the right side); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the right back); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1893; this bronze version cast between 1940 and 1952
Provenance
Curt Valentin, New York, by 1954.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1950s.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1950s.
Exhibited
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Auguste Rodin, May 1954, no. 26 (illustrated).
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.