Douleur no. 2 dit aussi 'nu féminin appuyé sur un rocher'

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Douleur no. 2 dit aussi 'nu féminin appuyé sur un rocher'
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin 2/12' (on the front of the rock); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier.Fondeur. Paris' (on the back of the rock)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 7 in. (17.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1887; this bronze version cast in 1951

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Hughette Bérès, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1952).

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 46, 60, 144 and 287; vol. II, pp. 508, 563, 583 and 619 (plaster version illustrated, p. 563, fig. 2).
K. Tweed, ed., and R. Lynes, The Finest Rooms by America's Great Decorators, New York, 1964, p. 90 (illustrated in situ in The Morning Room, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan).

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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 2021-6321B.

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