Lot Essay
The Comité Auguste Rodin under the direction of Jerome Le Blay will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté under the number 2007V1135B.
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L'éternel printemps, second état, deuxième réduction
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'éternel printemps, second état, deuxième réduction
signed 'Rodin' (on the right side); inscribed with the foundry mark 'F.BARBEDIENNE.Fondeur.' (on the left side); struck with the letter 'K' (on the rim)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 20½ in. (52 cm.)
Conceived in 1884 and in this size in 1900; this version cast between 1900 and 1918 in an edition of 32 or 33
L'éternel printemps, second état, deuxième réduction
signed 'Rodin' (on the right side); inscribed with the foundry mark 'F.BARBEDIENNE.Fondeur.' (on the left side); struck with the letter 'K' (on the rim)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 20½ in. (52 cm.)
Conceived in 1884 and in this size in 1900; this version cast between 1900 and 1918 in an edition of 32 or 33
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 69 (another cast illustrated p. 42).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96.
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 96 (another cast illustrated pls. 56-57).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 241-247, no. 32b (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Oxford, 1980, no. 48.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, 1981, p. 68 (the large clay version illustrated fig. 313).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96.
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 96 (another cast illustrated pls. 56-57).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 241-247, no. 32b (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Oxford, 1980, no. 48.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, 1981, p. 68 (the large clay version illustrated fig. 313).
Special notice
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