AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Trois faunesses, dit aussi Trois bretonnes

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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Trois faunesses, dit aussi Trois bretonnes
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the arms); inscribed and dated '© by Musée Rodin 1956' (under the arms)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 10 in. (25 cm.)
Conceived circa 1896 and cast in 1956
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Alex Vömel, Dusseldorf (acquired from the above, September 1958).
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anon. sale, Schüler Auktionen, Zurich, 26 September 2017, lot 6814.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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 2024-7194B.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 40, no. 62 (plaster version illustrated; dated 1887).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 244 (plaster version illustrated; dated 1882).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin, London, 1970, p. 118 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 23; dated 1882).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 358-360, no. S. 6724 (another cast illustrated, p. 359).
Exhibited
Dusseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel, Auguste Rodin: Verzig Skulpturen, May-June 1958, no. 8 (illustrated).

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