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 2006V953B.
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Jean d'Aire, L'un des Bourgeois de Calais
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Jean d'Aire, L'un des Bourgeois de Calais
signed and inscribed 'A.Rodin Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris' (on the back of the base); inscribed '© by musée Rodin' (on the left side); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 18½ in. (47.1 cm.)
Originally conceived between 1887 and 1895 and in this reduced size in 1895; this version cast in 1958
Jean d'Aire, L'un des Bourgeois de Calais
signed and inscribed 'A.Rodin Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris' (on the back of the base); inscribed '© by musée Rodin' (on the left side); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 18½ in. (47.1 cm.)
Originally conceived between 1887 and 1895 and in this reduced size in 1895; this version cast in 1958
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Vömel, Dusseldorf, by whom acquired from the above in December 1958.
Galerie Vömel, Dusseldorf, by whom acquired from the above in December 1958.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, pp. 51-53, nos. 110-115 (complete monumental plaster version illustrated p. 52). R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 106-117 (complete monumental bronze version illustrated p. 114).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 98 (complete monumental bronze version illustrated pl. 41).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculpture, London, 1970, pl. 40 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 376-402, no. 67-69-13 (another cast illustrated p. 390) and no. 67 (complete monumental bronze version illustrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 98 (complete monumental bronze version illustrated pl. 41).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculpture, London, 1970, pl. 40 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 376-402, no. 67-69-13 (another cast illustrated p. 390) and no. 67 (complete monumental bronze version illustrated).
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