Lot 21

Property from a Private European Collection The following four lots derive from a marvelous and varied collection of Auguste Rodin bronze sculptures assembled by a private collector over the past three decades. Beginning in the early 1970s, with acquisitions made directly from the Musée Rodin, and continuing through the 1980s, with some earlier casts purchased at auction, these four sculptures provide a shorthand study of Rodin's sensitive, gestural handling of the female body and his detailed accuracy with the human face. The present lot pictured here, Baigneuse Zoubaloff, is the earliest of the group, cast by Alexis Rudier in 1944, and offers a wonderfully evocative and sensual pose complemented by a deep crimson-brown patina.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Baigneuse Zoubaloff

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Baigneuse Zoubaloff
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin 9/12' (on the back right of the base) and inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis.Rudier Fondeur. Paris' (on the back left of the base); with raised signature (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 15 in. (38.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1888; this bronze version cast in 1944

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Marcel Achard, Paris (acquired from the above, April 1945).
Juliette Achard (by descent from the above, 1974).
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 1985, lot 251.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Monaco, 1947, p. 142, no. 81 (another cast illustrated, pl. 81).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 101.

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 2007V1180B.

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