Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste de Suzon, réduction no. 3

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Suzon, réduction no. 3
signed 'A. RODIN' (on the right side)
Biscuit de Sèvres
Height: 9 1/8 in. (23 cm.)
Conceived in 1873-1875; this Biscuit de Sèvres version cast by 1939

Provenance

Shepherd Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1970.

Literature

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 582 (larger bronze version illustrated, fig. 106-2; dated 1872).
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, p. 447, no. 129 (larger bronze version illustrated, fig. 370).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 662-663, no. S. 961 (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 662; another version illustrated, p. 663).

Sale room notice

Please not the correct height for this work is 9 1/8 in. (23 cm.).

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2009-2801B.

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