Lot Essay
Executed for The Gates of Hell, Désespoir appears on the upper left door, turned inward among other nymphs.
Désespoir
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Désespoir
signed on the top of the base 'A. Rodin', inscribed with foundry mark on the back of the base 'ALEXIS.RUDIER FONDEUR PARIS'--with raised signature inside 'A. Rodin'
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 10½in. (26.7cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1890; this bronze version cast before 1952
Désespoir
signed on the top of the base 'A. Rodin', inscribed with foundry mark on the back of the base 'ALEXIS.RUDIER FONDEUR PARIS'--with raised signature inside 'A. Rodin'
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 10½in. (26.7cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1890; this bronze version cast before 1952
Provenance
André Bromberg, Paris
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, June 8, 1977, lot 5
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, June 8, 1977, lot 5
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 170 (plaster version illustrated, p. 68)
C. Lampert, Rodin, Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1986, no. 86 (plaster version illustrated, p. 208)
C. Lampert, Rodin, Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1986, no. 86 (plaster version illustrated, p. 208)