Lot Essay
Jérôme Le Blay will include this scupture in his forthcoming Catalogue Critique des sculptures d'Auguste Rodin being prepared in association with Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under archive number 2004NV489B.
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF GITTA SHEROVER, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE GABRIEL SHEROVER FOUNDATION, JERUSALEM
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'age d'Airain, petit modèle, seconde réduction
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'age d'Airain, petit modèle, seconde réduction
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base) and inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 25½ in. (64.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1875-1876; this version reduced in November 1904; this bronze version cast in February 1920
L'age d'Airain, petit modèle, seconde réduction
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base) and inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 25½ in. (64.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1875-1876; this version reduced in November 1904; this bronze version cast in February 1920
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (acquired from the above, September 1920).
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh.
Mrs. G. David Thompson (by descent from the above); Estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 18 May 1983, lot 86.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (acquired from the above, September 1920).
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh.
Mrs. G. David Thompson (by descent from the above); Estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 18 May 1983, lot 86.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 140, no. 35 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 20-26 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 20).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 50-52 and 279, nos. 12 and 13 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 51, and detail of another cast illustrated, p. 53).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 53-54 (large bronze and plaster versions illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 85 (another cast illustrated, and detail of another cast illustrated, pls. 6-7).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970 (another cast illustrated, pls. 4-5).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 19, 23, 30, 32, 42, 66-67, 342-356, no. 64 (large bronze version illustrated, pp. 343 and 345, and in color, p. 16).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, New York, 1980 (plaster version illustrated, pls. 2-5).
L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, The Cantor Gift to The Brooklyn Museum: Rodin, Meriden, 1987, pp. 57-58, no. 8 (another cast illustrated, p. 56).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, pp. 114-116, no. 95d (other casts illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 37-48, no. 2 (other casts illustrated, pp. 37-38 and 40).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 20-26 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 20).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 50-52 and 279, nos. 12 and 13 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 51, and detail of another cast illustrated, p. 53).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 53-54 (large bronze and plaster versions illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 85 (another cast illustrated, and detail of another cast illustrated, pls. 6-7).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970 (another cast illustrated, pls. 4-5).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 19, 23, 30, 32, 42, 66-67, 342-356, no. 64 (large bronze version illustrated, pp. 343 and 345, and in color, p. 16).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, New York, 1980 (plaster version illustrated, pls. 2-5).
L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, The Cantor Gift to The Brooklyn Museum: Rodin, Meriden, 1987, pp. 57-58, no. 8 (another cast illustrated, p. 56).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, pp. 114-116, no. 95d (other casts illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 37-48, no. 2 (other casts illustrated, pp. 37-38 and 40).
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 19th Carnegie International, 1920. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, International Retrospective Exhibition, (possibly) 1958.