Etude pour L’homme qui marche dite aussi Torse de L’homme qui marche

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Etude pour L’homme qui marche dite aussi Torse de L’homme qui marche
signed, dated and numbered 'A. Rodin 1980 nº 11' (on the back); stamped with the Coubertin foundry mark and inscribed '© by musée Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 21 ¼ in. (53.9 cm.)
Conceived circa 1887; this bronze version cast in 1980

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris
Bruton Gallery, Somerset (acquired from the above, April 1982).
Private collection, United Kingdom.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 310.
Bruton Gallery, Somerset.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1985.

Literature

I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1971, p. 51 (another cast illustrated, p. 50).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 363 (another cast illustrated, p. 365, fig. 65-3).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 421 (another cast illustrated).

Présenté par

Vanessa Fusco

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Descriptif du lot

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 2018-5859B.

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