Lot Essay
The Comité Auguste Rodin under the direction of Jerome Le Blay will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin catalogue critique under the number 2006V990B.
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Tête de Camille Claudel
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de Camille Claudel
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges.Rudier Fondeur.Paris' (on the back of the base); dated and inscribed '© by Musée Rodin 1955' (on the left side of the base); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown and black patina
Height: 10¾ in. (27.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in July 1955
Tête de Camille Claudel
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges.Rudier Fondeur.Paris' (on the back of the base); dated and inscribed '© by Musée Rodin 1955' (on the left side of the base); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown and black patina
Height: 10¾ in. (27.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in July 1955
Provenance
World House Galleries [Mr Herbert Mayer], Greenwich, CT, by whom acquired from the Musée Rodin in December 1955.
Pensler Gallery, Washington, DC.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 15 May 1997, lot 250.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Pensler Gallery, Washington, DC.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 15 May 1997, lot 250.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 126 (another cast illustrated p. 56)
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 129 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 108-3 (another cast illustrated p. 593).
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 129 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 108-3 (another cast illustrated p. 593).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium