Petite tête de l’Homme au nez cassé, esquisse pour la Porte de l’Enfer – variante avec cou symétrique

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Petite tête de l’Homme au nez cassé, esquisse pour la Porte de l’Enfer – variante avec cou symétrique
signed 'A. Rodin' (to the left of the neck); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (to the right of the neck)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height (excluding base): 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
Conceived before 1889 and cast between 1920 -1930

Literature

J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 79-4, pp. 476, 479 (another version illustrated p. 477).
A. le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 416 (another version illustrated).

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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 2013-4281B.

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