Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Property of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Demain
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Camille Claudel au bonnet

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Camille Claudel au bonnet
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side), inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier..Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back), and dated '© by musée Rodin 1967' (on the underside); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with black and green patina
Height: 10½ in. (26.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in 1967
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
B. Gerald Cantor, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, 1967).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1968.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, p. 71, no. 160 (plaster version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 64).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 593, no. 108-2 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 304-309, no. 90 (other casts illustrated, pp. 304-305; conception date 1885 or 1886).

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