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Venus
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Venus
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 8' (on the top of the base); dated ' Muse Rodin 1960.' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 19 .5/8 in. (49.9 cm.)
Conceived in 1889; this bronze version cast in 1960
Venus
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 8' (on the top of the base); dated ' Muse Rodin 1960.' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 19 .5/8 in. (49.9 cm.)
Conceived in 1889; this bronze version cast in 1960
Provenance
Muse Rodin, Paris.
Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York.
Dvora and Meir Ronen, Jerusalem.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 26 March 1984, lot 1.
Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York.
Dvora and Meir Ronen, Jerusalem.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 26 March 1984, lot 1.
Literature
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 102.
Sale room notice
Please note the first line of provenance should read: Edgardo Acosta, New York (acquired from the Muse Rodin, 1962).