Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Tête de la muse tragique

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de la muse tragique
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin 7/8' (on the right side of the neck) and inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the neck) and inscribed and dated '.c by musée Rodin.1982.' (on the bottom of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 11 5/8 in. (29.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1895; this bronze version cast in 1982-1983

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Drs. Stan and Dragosiava Vesselinovitch, Chicago (acquired from the above, December 1985).
Private collection, Chicago (by descent from the above).
Acquired by the present owner, 2009.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 544-547, no. S.968 (another cast illustrated, p. 544).

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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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2011-3523B.

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