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THE ARTISTIC JOURNEY – A DISTINGUISHED WEST COAST COLLECTION
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Faunesse debout – version au rocher simple
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Faunesse debout – version au rocher simple
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the front of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature twice 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 1/4 in. (59 cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in 1953
Faunesse debout – version au rocher simple
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the front of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature twice 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 1/4 in. (59 cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in 1953
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris (acquired from the above, March 1959).
Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, September 1959).
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 2002, lot 105.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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 2002-225B.
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris (acquired from the above, March 1959).
Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, September 1959).
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 2002, lot 105.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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 2002-225B.
Literature
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 141, no. 55 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 55).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 628-629 (another cast illustrated, fig. 5).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 628-629 (another cast illustrated, fig. 5).