Lot Essay
L'homme qui tombe was placed underneath the lintel at the top of the left-hand leaf of the doors in La porte de l'Enfer.
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L'homme qui tombe
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'homme qui tombe
signed, numbered and dated 'A. Rodin No. 11 c BY MUSEE Rodin 1981 (on the left side), and inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr' (on the right side)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 23.3/8 in. (58.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1882; this bronze version cast in 1981
L'homme qui tombe
signed, numbered and dated 'A. Rodin No. 11 c BY MUSEE Rodin 1981 (on the left side), and inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr' (on the right side)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 23.3/8 in. (58.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1882; this bronze version cast in 1981
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 52 (plaster version illustrated, p. 38).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 106 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 33; as The Fall of Icarus).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 167, no. 10-4 (plaster version illustrated, p. 166).
ed. R. Crone and S. Salzmann, Rodin, Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, p. 182, no. 31 (another cast illustrated, pl. 31).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 106 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 33; as The Fall of Icarus).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 167, no. 10-4 (plaster version illustrated, p. 166).
ed. R. Crone and S. Salzmann, Rodin, Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, p. 182, no. 31 (another cast illustrated, pl. 31).