Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Property from the Collection of Max Palevsky
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle

Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark, inscribed and dated 'Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris. c by musée Rodin 1958' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 29¾ in. (75.6 cm.)
Conceived circa 1892-1893; this bronze version cast in 1958
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above, December 1964).
L.A. Kolker, Scarsdale (acquired from the above, February 1965).
Obelisk Gallery, Boston.
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, January 1969.
Literature
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 425 and 453, no. 73 (painted plaster version illustrated, p. 427; titled Naked Balzac).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 168, no. S. 473 (another cast illustrated; titled Balzac, étude de nu C, petit modèle).

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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 at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2010-3253B.

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