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Tête de garçon qui rit
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de garçon qui rit
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side) and stamped with foundry mark and dated 'by Musée Rodin 1966. Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back)
bronze with green and black patina
Height: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.)
Conceived before 1889; this bronze version cast at a later date
Tête de garçon qui rit
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side) and stamped with foundry mark and dated 'by Musée Rodin 1966. Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back)
bronze with green and black patina
Height: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.)
Conceived before 1889; this bronze version cast at a later date
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Cecilia and Samuel Neaman, San Diego (acquired from the above).
By bequest from the above to the present owner, 2002.
Cecilia and Samuel Neaman, San Diego (acquired from the above).
By bequest from the above to the present owner, 2002.
Literature
J. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 606, no. 114 (another cast illustrated p. 609).