AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Petite tête de femme au chignon

signed and numbered A. Rodin no. 9 on the left side, inscribed c by MUSÉE RODIN 1971 on the back, inscribed Susse. Fondeur Paris on the bottom--bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.)

Original plaster version executed 1880-1900; this bronze version cast in 1971, number nine in an edition of 12

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris (acquired by the family of the present owner, 1971)

Literature

L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, Rodin, The Cantor Gift to The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, 1967, no. 12 (another cast illustrated, p. 67)

Lot Essay

This somber, enigmatic head is related to one which appears above The Thinker in the cornice of the tympanum of The Gates of Hell. "Amid those tormented heads and leering skulls, the Small Head reads as one of many moods in the spectrum of human suffering." (L. Amrosini and M. Facos, op. cit., p. 67)

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