Torse de femme, étude type A, petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Torse de femme, étude type A, petit modèle
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin no. 5 © by Musée Rodin 1970' (on the left leg); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris' (on the back)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 9 5/8 in. (24.2 cm.)
Conceived before 1900 and cast in bronze by the Musée Rodin in a numbered edition of thirteen between 1967 and 1979; this bronze version cast in June 1970

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Gérald Cramer, Lausanne, by whom acquired from the above in January 1971.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2001, lot 192.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze: catalogue des oeuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 684 (another cast illustrated).

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Sale room notice

Please note that the dimensions stated in the catalogue include the base. The height of the bronze is 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.).

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Descriptif du lot

The Comité Auguste Rodin under the direction of Jérome Le Blay will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin Catalogue critique de
l'oeuvre sculpté under the number 1999-703B.

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