Etude pour une damnée

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Etude pour une damnée
signed, numbered, dated and inscribed with foundry mark 'A. Rodin. no 4 Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. © by musée. rodin. 1964.' (on the torso)
bronze with brown and green patina
Length: 14 ¾ in. (37.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1888; this bronze version cast in 1964

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above, 1965).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, April 1965.

Literature

A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 245-247 (another cast illustrated, pp. 245 and 247, fig. 193; dated circa 1884).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 287-288 (another cast 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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2017-5249B.

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