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Tête du Génie Funéraire ou Tête du Génie du Repos Éternel dite aussi 'Tête n°33'
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Tête du Génie Funéraire ou Tête du Génie du Repos Éternel dite aussi 'Tête n°33'
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side of the neck); stamped with the foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (at the back of the neck); dated and inscribed '© by musée Rodin 1971' (on the left side of the neck)
bronze with dark brown patina
height (excluding base): 5 7⁄8 in. (15 cm.)
Conceived circa 1898-1899, this example cast in bronze by Fonderie Georges Rudier, Paris, in June 1971, in an edition of 11
Tête du Génie Funéraire ou Tête du Génie du Repos Éternel dite aussi 'Tête n°33'
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side of the neck); stamped with the foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (at the back of the neck); dated and inscribed '© by musée Rodin 1971' (on the left side of the neck)
bronze with dark brown patina
height (excluding base): 5 7⁄8 in. (15 cm.)
Conceived circa 1898-1899, this example cast in bronze by Fonderie Georges Rudier, Paris, in June 1971, in an edition of 11
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family, May 1974.
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 2026-8321B.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family, May 1974.
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 2026-8321B.
Literature
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S 652, p. 395 (another cast illustrated; dated '1898').
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