Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Veillard suppliante

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Rodin, A.
Veillard suppliante
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No. 3' (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark and dated 'E. GODARD Fondr c BY MUSEE RODIN 1975' (on the left side)
bronze with black patina
Height: 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm.)
conceived circa 1886; this bronze version cast in 1975.
bronze with black patina
Height: 13 in. (33.7 cm.)
Conceived circa 1886; this bronze version cast in 1975 (2)

Provenance

Muse Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1976.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Muse Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 56, no. 140 (another cast illustrated).

Lot Essay

In 1880 Rodin proposed to flank the Gates of Hell with monumental figures of Adam and Eve. Adam was nearly complete when he began work on Eve, exhibiting a half life-size version of it in London in 1883. It was not until 1899 that the sculptor displayed the life-size Eve at the Paris Salon.

The present sculpture is a study for Eve which Rodin used again in 1912-1913, together with a figure of Adam, in the preliminary design for a fireplace. In contrast to the later version Eve, the present sculpture is elongated and more exaggerated in its movement.

Veillard suppliante

Lot Essay

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