Mouvement de danse C

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Mouvement de danse C
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin' (on the right foot)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 13 5/8 in. (34.9 cm.)
Conceived in 1911; this bronze version cast in 1953

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, July 1954.

Literature

M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 62 (plaster version illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 252 (plaster version illustrated, p. 251, fig. G; titled Balancing Exercise).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 536, no. S. 762 (another cast illustrated).

Sale room notice

Please note the illustration in the printed catalogue is incorrect. The correct image for this work is illustrated as lot 408 in the printed catalogue.

Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2006-1037B.

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