Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Balzac, étude type C (buste), 3ème version, petit modèle

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, étude type C (buste), 3ème version, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the left edge of the neck) and inscribed with foundry mark 'A. Rudier . Fr Paris' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 6 1/2 in. (16.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1892; this cast executed between 1927 and 1933

Provenance

Galerie Haussmann [M. Gustave Danthon], Paris, before 1933.
Private collection, Israel, by whom acquired in the 1980s, and thence by descent.

Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 188, p. 72 (another cast illustrated p. 73).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 218 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 265 (another cast illustrated).
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London/Melbourne, 1967, p. 167 (another version illustrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 105.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 455.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S. 1079, pp. 168-169 (other versions illustrated).

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2018-5744B.

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