Balzac, étude type C (torse), petit modéle, variante

Details

Auguste Rodin (1841-1917)
Balzac, étude type C (torse), petit modéle, variante
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the back of the right shoulder); inscribed with foundry mark 'ALEXIS RUDIER. FONDEUR.PARIS.' (below the left arm); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with black and green patina
Height: 12 in. (30.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1892; this bronze version cast 1918-1927

Provenance

Galerie Haussmann (Gustave Danthon), Paris.
D. Hartog, United States (circa 1960).
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 29 November 1967, lot 4. Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 13 May 1970, lot 20.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

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 2007V1076B.

According to the Comité Auguste Rodin, there are at least three known casts of this sculpture.

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