Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Tête de Camille Claudel

細節

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de Camille Claudel
signed on the top of the base 'A. Rodin', inscribed with foundry mark and dated on the back of the base 'Georges.Rudier Fondeur.Paris © by Musée Rodin 1955'--with raised signature inside 'A. Rodin'
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 10¾in. (27.3cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1884; this bronze version cast in 1955

來源

Musée Rodin, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mayer, Greenwich, Connecticut (acquired from the above; acquired from their estate by the present owner, 1996)

出版

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 126 (another cast illustrated, p. 56)
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 129 (another cast illustrated)
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 108-3 (another cast illustrated, p. 593)

拍品專文

Rodin met Camille Claudel in 1882 when she moved to Paris to establish herself as a sculptor. She first became his student and later his mistress. Their relationship lasted for over ten years, finally coming to an end in the mid-1890s. This sculpture was conceived in 1884 and is one of several portraits Rodin made of Claudel (cf. Tancock, figs. 108-2, 108-4, 108-5, and 108-6).