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Giganti, torse masculin, version sans terrasse dit aussi 'Torse d'homme nouveau modèle'
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Giganti, torse masculin, version sans terrasse dit aussi 'Torse d'homme nouveau modèle'
signed 'A. Rodin', dated and inscribed '© musée Rodin 1966' (on the left proper hip); stamped with the foundry mark '.Georges RUDiER. .Fondeur PARiS.' (at the back)
bronze with brown and green patina
height (excluding base): 10 5⁄8 in. (27 cm.)
Conceived between 1880 and 1885, this example cast in bronze by Fonderie Georges Rudier, Paris, in February 1966
Giganti, torse masculin, version sans terrasse dit aussi 'Torse d'homme nouveau modèle'
signed 'A. Rodin', dated and inscribed '© musée Rodin 1966' (on the left proper hip); stamped with the foundry mark '.Georges RUDiER. .Fondeur PARiS.' (at the back)
bronze with brown and green patina
height (excluding base): 10 5⁄8 in. (27 cm.)
Conceived between 1880 and 1885, this example cast in bronze by Fonderie Georges Rudier, Paris, in February 1966
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, by whom acquired from the above, in March 1967.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 November 2001, lot 114.
Probably acquired from the above sale by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.
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 2008-1973B.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, by whom acquired from the above, in March 1967.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 November 2001, lot 114.
Probably acquired from the above sale by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.
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 2008-1973B.
Literature
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 40, p. 269 (the plaster version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 175, pp. 555–556 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 399 (another cast illustrated fig. 1).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 175, pp. 555–556 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 399 (another cast illustrated fig. 1).
Exhibited
Montreal, Dominion Gallery, Cinquantenaire de la mort d'Auguste Rodin, May - June 1967, no. 26, p. 58 (illustrated; titled 'Torse d'homme' and dated '1882').
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