Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin under the archive number 2005V731B
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Property from a Private American Collection
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'Age d'Airain, petit modèle
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'Age d'Airain, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of base); dated '©c by Musée Rodin 1960' (on the right side of base) and indistinctly inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Foundeur.Paris.' (on the back of base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 25¼ in. (64 cm.)
Conceived in 1875-1876; this bronze version cast in the 1960s
L'Age d'Airain, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of base); dated '©c by Musée Rodin 1960' (on the right side of base) and indistinctly inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Foundeur.Paris.' (on the back of base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 25¼ in. (64 cm.)
Conceived in 1875-1876; this bronze version cast in the 1960s
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris. (possibly) Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London. Leo Bakalar, Boston (possibly acquired from the above). By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
G. Grappe, Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, pp. 27-28, nos. 11-12 (larger bronze and plaster versions illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1934 (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 29).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 140, no. 35 (larger bronze version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 20-36 (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 20).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 50-52 and 279, nos. 12 and 13 (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 51, and detail illustrated, p. 53).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 53-54 (larger bronze and plaster versions illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 86 (larger bronze version and detail 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 (larger bronze version illustrated, pp. 343 and 345, and in color, p. 16).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, New York, 1980, nos. 2 and 5 (plaster version illustrated).
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 (larger bronze version illustrated, pp. 114-115 and 117).
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. 3 (another cast and larger versions illustrated, pp. 37-38 and 40).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1934 (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 29).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 140, no. 35 (larger bronze version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 20-36 (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 20).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 50-52 and 279, nos. 12 and 13 (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 51, and detail illustrated, p. 53).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 53-54 (larger bronze and plaster versions illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 86 (larger bronze version and detail 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 (larger bronze version illustrated, pp. 343 and 345, and in color, p. 16).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, New York, 1980, nos. 2 and 5 (plaster version illustrated).
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 (larger bronze version illustrated, pp. 114-115 and 117).
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. 3 (another cast and larger versions illustrated, pp. 37-38 and 40).
Sale room notice
Please note that this work was conceived in 1875-1877; this size reduction in 1904; this bronze version cast in 1961.