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Buste de Camille Claudel
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Camille Claudel
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the top of the base); dated and inscribed '© by Musée Rodin 1956' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with black and green patina
Height: 10½in. (26.6cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in 1956 in an edition of twelve
Buste de Camille Claudel
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the top of the base); dated and inscribed '© by Musée Rodin 1956' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with black and green patina
Height: 10½in. (26.6cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in 1956 in an edition of twelve
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris (inv. 790).
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London.
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 September 1999, lot 10.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London.
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 September 1999, lot 10.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 126 (another cast illustrated p. 56).
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 129 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 108-3 (another cast illustrated p. 593).
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 129 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 108-3 (another cast illustrated p. 593).
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