Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main crispée et figure implorante
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin No.3', inscribed 'c BY A.RODIN' and 'E.GODARD Fondeur Paris' (on the side of the base)
bronze with black patina
17½ in. (44.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1890-1900 and cast in 1970 in a numbered edition of twelve plus one proof for the collection of the Musée Rodin.
來源
Musée Rodin, Paris.
出版
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London, 1967 (the plaster version illustrated p. 229).
London, Hayward Gallery, Rodin, Sculptures and drawings, Jan.-Apr. 1970, no. 84 (another cast illustrated pl. 1).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Rodin, May-Oct. 1984, no. 71 (another cast illustrated p. 116).
拍品專文
This work is a combination of the large Clenched Hand and Despairing Adolescent, a rough model made in 1882 for one of Ugolino's sons.