Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Idylle d'Ixelles, petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Idylle d'Ixelles, petit modèle
signed 'Rodin' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 10¼ in. (26 cm.)
Conceived circa 1874-1876; this bronze version cast between 1885-1900

Provenance

Maurice Dupuy, Neuilly-sur-Seine (acquired between 1930 and 1950).
By descent from the above to the present owner, 1962.

Literature

G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 140, no. 33 (marble version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 86.
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 50 (large bronze version illustrated in color, p. 51).
L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, Rodin, The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1987, no. 9 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 59).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 82, no. 62b (large bronze and marble versions illustrated, p. 83).
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, p. 493, no. 147 (large bronze version illustrated).

Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculptè currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin under the archive number 2003V363B.

This cast is the only known example of Idylle d'Ixelles in this size. There is a large version measuring 22 in. (55.9 cm.) in height.

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