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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Esquisse pour les Bénédictions, Modèle pour le sommet de 'La Tour du Travail'
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Esquisse pour les Bénédictions, Modèle pour le sommet de 'La Tour du Travail'
signed, dated and stamped with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin. 1965. .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (around the lower edge of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
height: 11 1⁄8 in. (28.2 cm.)
Conceived before 1894, and cast in bronze by Georges Rudier, Paris, in 1965-1966
Esquisse pour les Bénédictions, Modèle pour le sommet de 'La Tour du Travail'
signed, dated and stamped with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin. 1965. .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (around the lower edge of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
height: 11 1⁄8 in. (28.2 cm.)
Conceived before 1894, and cast in bronze by Georges Rudier, Paris, in 1965-1966
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, by whom acquired from the above, in August 1968.
Goldman's Art Gallery, Haifa, by whom acquired from the above, in 1968.
Private collection, until at least 2014.
Private collection, Israel, and thence by descent to the present owner, in 2025.
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 2014-4378B.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, by whom acquired from the above, in August 1968.
Goldman's Art Gallery, Haifa, by whom acquired from the above, in 1968.
Private collection, until at least 2014.
Private collection, Israel, and thence by descent to the present owner, in 2025.
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 2014-4378B.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 245, p. 97 (marble version illustrated p. 98).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 45, pp. 227-228 & 230 (plaster version illustrated p. 226).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 47, pp. 294 & 296 (other versions illustrated pp. 295 & 297).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.595, p. 199 (another version illustrated).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 45, pp. 227-228 & 230 (plaster version illustrated p. 226).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 47, pp. 294 & 296 (other versions illustrated pp. 295 & 297).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.595, p. 199 (another version illustrated).
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