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Esquisse pour la Mort d'Adonis
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Esquisse pour la Mort d'Adonis
signed 'A. Rodin' (at the front of the rock); stamped with foundry mark 'A. Rudier Fondeur PARIS' (on the right side of the rock); signed with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina
width: 10 5⁄8 in. (27.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885-1887, this example cast in bronze by Fonderie Rudier, Paris, in September 1943
Esquisse pour la Mort d'Adonis
signed 'A. Rodin' (at the front of the rock); stamped with foundry mark 'A. Rudier Fondeur PARIS' (on the right side of the rock); signed with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina
width: 10 5⁄8 in. (27.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885-1887, this example cast in bronze by Fonderie Rudier, Paris, in September 1943
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Antonio de Barros Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, by whom acquired from the above, in October 1951.
Acquired 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 2025-7421B.
Antonio de Barros Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, by whom acquired from the above, in October 1951.
Acquired 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 2025-7421B.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 182, p. 71 (marble version illustrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldschneider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 102.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 43, pp. 276-279 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 530 (another cast illusrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldschneider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 102.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 43, pp. 276-279 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 530 (another cast illusrated).
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