Mouvement de danse, étude type A, taille originale ou petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Mouvement de danse, étude type A, taille originale ou petit modèle
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin 6/12' (on the right foot)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 12 in. (30.6 cm.)
Conceived circa 1911; this bronze version cast in 1951

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris (acquired from the above, June 1954).
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (acquired from the above, June 1954).

Literature

A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 147 and 220 (another cast illustrated, p. 147).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 252 (plaster version illustrated in color, p. 251, fig. E; titled Limbering up).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 113 (another cast illustrated, pl. 76).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 533 (another cast illustrated).

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l’Œuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin, currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at the Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2021-6322B.

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