Lot Essay
The Comité Auguste Rodin will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté under number 2006V895B.
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Grande main gauche crispée avec figure implorante
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Grande main gauche crispée avec figure implorante
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin No 3' (on the front of the base); inscribed and inscribed with the foundry mark '© BY A.RODIN E.GODARD Fondr Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1906-1907; this bronze version cast in 1970 in a numbered edition of twelve
Grande main gauche crispée avec figure implorante
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin N
bronze with brown patina
Height: 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1906-1907; this bronze version cast in 1970 in a numbered edition of twelve
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 1997, lot 271.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 1997, lot 271.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London, 1967 (the plaster version illustrated p. 229).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 620.
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Oxford, 1980, p. 174.
I. Ross & A. Snow (eds.), Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, no. 121 (another cast illustrated p. 130).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Centre for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2003, no. 193.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 620.
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Oxford, 1980, p. 174.
I. Ross & A. Snow (eds.), Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, no. 121 (another cast illustrated p. 130).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Centre for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2003, no. 193.
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