Mouvement de danse 'A'

细节

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Mouvement de danse 'A'
signed and inscribed 'A. Rodin À. M. et M. Marshall' (on the back of the head)
bronze with green and black patina
Height: 125/8 in. (32 cm.)
Conceived in 1910; this bronze version cast by the Alexis Rudier foundry before 1917

来源

Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall (gift from the artist).
R.B. Marshall (by descent from the above).
R.B. Gardner; sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1965, lot 121.
Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale).
Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles.

出版

A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 147 (another cast illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 252, fig. E (plaster version illustrated, p. 251; as Limbering up).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 113 (another cast illustrated, pl. 76).

展览

Liverpool Art Gallery, Autumn Exhibition, 1929.

拍品专文

Rodin's reputation in America soared following his participation in the Saint-Louis World's Fair in 1904 and the Boston Claude Monet--Auguste Rodin exhibition in 1905. In New York, a group of American patrons donated funds to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to commission bronze casts and marbles from Rodin. Along with the Museum's curator Daniel French, John Marshall personally oversaw the purchase of many of these works. Through his friendship with the Duchess of Choiseuil, a fellow American who was Rodin's muse and mistress for many years, Marshall was introduced to Rodin. He traveled to Paris to visit Rodin in his studio and to make selections for the museum. In the years that followed, Marshall and his wife Mary continued to promote Rodin. When the couple later moved to Rome it was Marshall who helped facilitate Rodin's sale of the large L'homme qui marche to the French Government to decorate the courtyard of the Farnese Palace which housed the French Embassy in Rome.

It is likely that Mouvement de danse 'A' was given to Marshall to express his gratitude and sentiments of friendship sometime after he had secured the Rome sale in 1912. Casts of the dancer series are rarely known to have been cast before the 1940s.