Lot Essay
The Comité Auguste Rodin under the direction of Jérome Le Blay will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté under the number 2003V383B.
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Figure féminine de l'Éternelle idole, petit modèle
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Figure féminine de l'Éternelle idole, petit modèle
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the top of the base); numbered, dated and inscribed with the foundry mark 'N 6 Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris. Musée Rodin 1961' (on the side of the base); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1882; this bronze version cast in 1961
Figure féminine de l'Éternelle idole, petit modèle
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the top of the base); numbered, dated and inscribed with the foundry mark 'N 6 Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris. Musée Rodin 1961' (on the side of the base); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1882; this bronze version cast in 1961
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Samuel A. Tower, New York, by whom acquired from the above in June 1962.
Arnold W. Gordon, New York.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 2003, lot 251.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Samuel A. Tower, New York, by whom acquired from the above in June 1962.
Arnold W. Gordon, New York.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 2003, lot 251.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 204 (the full composition illustrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 103 (the marble version of the full composition illustrated pl. 58).
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London, 1967 (the larger plaster version of the full composition illustrated p. 138).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 30 & 210 (the full composition illustrated pls. 9 & 10).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 103 (the marble version of the full composition illustrated pl. 58).
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London, 1967 (the larger plaster version of the full composition illustrated p. 138).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 30 & 210 (the full composition illustrated pls. 9 & 10).
Exhibited
Nice, Palais de la Méditerranée, Sculptures de Rodin, December 1961 - February 1962, no. 36.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium