AUGUSTE RODIN

Details
AUGUSTE RODIN

Grande main crispee

signed and inscribed on the base A. Rodin, © by Musee Rodin. 1969. Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. With raised signature inside A. Rodin--bronze with black and green patina

Original version executed 1884-1886, this bronze version cast in 1968 in an edition of twelve
Provenance
Musee Rodin, Paris
Atlantic Art Establishment (1968)
Literature
C. Mauclair, L'oeuvre de Rodin, Paris, 1900, pp. 30-32 (another cast illustrated)
F.G. Watkins, Rodin Museum of Philadelphia, 1929, no. 29
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, P. 80 (another cast illustrated) I. Jianou and C. Goldsheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p.93
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 119 (another cast illustrated, pp. 618-619)
A.E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, 1981 no. 182-185 (another cast illustrated, p.223)