Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Suzon

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Suzon
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin 1.' (on the right side of the neck)
white marble
Height: 12¾ in. (32.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1873-1875; this marble version executed before 1900

Provenance

Melle Riqher, Paris (by 1914).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, circa 1947-1950.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1938, no. 28 (plaster version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 206.
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 46 (bronze version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 85.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 106-2 (bronze version illustrated, p. 582).
L. Ambrosini and M. Facos, The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum: Rodin, Meriden, Connecticut, 1987, p. 54, nos. 6-7 (bronze and white bisque versions illustrated, p. 55).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 84, no. 64 (another marble version illustrated, p. 85).
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. 447, no. 129 (bronze version illustrated).

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 at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2006V970B.

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