Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
L'éternelle idole
signed, inscribed and numbered on the base A. Rodin A. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris 9/12--with raised signature on the underside A. Rodin--bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Marble and plaster versions executed 1889-1890; this bronze version cast in the early 1950s; number nine in an edition of twelve
L'éternelle idole
signed, inscribed and numbered on the base A. Rodin A. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris 9/12--with raised signature on the underside A. Rodin--bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Marble and plaster versions executed 1889-1890; this bronze version cast in the early 1950s; number nine in an edition of twelve
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris
Charles-Auguste Giraud, Paris
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
Mr. B. Marlin, Los Angeles
Jean Zimmerman, New York
Wilkey Fine Arts, Seattle
Charles-Auguste Giraud, Paris
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
Mr. B. Marlin, Los Angeles
Jean Zimmerman, New York
Wilkey Fine Arts, Seattle
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 240 (another cast illustrated, p. 83)
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967 (enlarged plaster version illustrated, p. 138)
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, no. 103 J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 47 (related version illustrated, pl. 9 and pl. 10)
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967 (enlarged plaster version illustrated, p. 138)
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, no. 103 J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 47 (related version illustrated, pl. 9 and pl. 10)