Lot Essay
The Comité Auguste Rodin will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin catalogue critique under number 2005V766B.
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Masque d'Hanako, étude type E
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Masque d'Hanako, étude type E
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the neck); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the right edge); inscribed and dated 'by Musée Rodin Paris 1956' (on the left edge); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 7 in. (17.8 cm.)
Original terracotta version executed circa 1908; this bronze version cast at a later date
Masque d'Hanako, étude type E
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the neck); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the right edge); inscribed and dated 'by Musée Rodin Paris 1956' (on the left edge); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 7 in. (17.8 cm.)
Original terracotta version executed circa 1908; this bronze version cast at a later date
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, by whom acquired from the above in 1956.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1990.
Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, by whom acquired from the above in 1956.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1990.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 371 (illustrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 111.
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, p. 125 (another cast illustrated pl. 84).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 97, 98.2 (another cast illustrated p. 551).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 111.
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, p. 125 (another cast illustrated pl. 84).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 97, 98.2 (another cast illustrated p. 551).
Special notice
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