Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Devant la mer, étude avec terrasse et sans tête

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Devant la mer, étude avec terrasse et sans tête
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No. 1' (on the front); dated 'c by Musée Rodin 1959' (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.)
Conceived in the late 1880s; this bronze version cast in 1959

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above, March 1963).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, July 1963). Saul Horavitz, New York (acquired from the above, July 1963).
Private collection, California.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005.

Literature

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 331, no. 60-I (another version illustrated).
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. 525, no. 166 (another version illustrated, pp. 525-526).

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 2007V1078B.

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