Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Nu féminin debout dit aussi Psyché
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base), dated ''c by Musée Rodin 1960' (on the right side of the base), inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 14¼ in. (36.2 cm.)
Conceived before 1889; this bronze version cast in July 1960
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above, 1962).
Literature
D. Ashton, "New York Report," Das Kunstwerk, vol. XVI, no. 4, October, 1962, p. 26.
Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin under the archives number 2005V726B.