Balzac: étude de tête

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac: étude de tête
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side); with foundry mark inscribed and dated 'Georges Rudier.Fondeur. Paris. © by Musée Rodin 1958' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and gold patina
Height: 6¾ in. (17.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1892-1893; this bronze version cast in 1958

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The sculpture is a fragment related to Honoré de Balzac, étude nu, which was conceived in 1892-1893 as one of several major studies done in preparation for the commission of a statue for the Société des Gens de Lettres.

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