Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Baigneuse assise se tenant les pieds, étude avec tête, petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Baigneuse assise se tenant les pieds, étude avec tête, petit modèle
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No. 4' (on the right side of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside); inscribed with foundry mark 'Georges. Rudier Fondeur. Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 8½ in. (21.6 cm.)
Conceived circa 1888; this bronze version cast between 1955 and 1956

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Antiquitäten Hertaschoene, Berlin.
Private collection, Ottowa (acquired from the above, December 1956).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 252, no. 34-2 (another cast illustrated; titled Woman with a Crab).

Lot Essay

This sculpture will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently in preparation at the Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay, under the archives number 2006NV912B.

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