Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

L'Eternel Printemps

marked on the base and again inside the base A. Rodin, stamped Georges Rudier, Fondeur Paris on the base at the back right and stamped on the base at the back left by Musée Rodin 1968, bronze with brown patina
20¼in. (51.5cm.) high

Conceived in 1884; cast in a limited edition for the Musée Rodin in 1968

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 69 (another cast illustrated)
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96, (another cast illustrated pls. 56-57)
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 241-247, no. 32b (another cast illustrated)
A. E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Oxford, 1980, p. 48 (the clay model illustrated)

Lot Essay

First titled Zephir et la Terre, this work was subsequently called Cupidon et Psyche at the 1897 Salon de Paris. It was a great success and Rodin executed a second version, L'Eternel Printemps, with a wider base and a rock with a floral design supporting the left arm.

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