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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN ESTATE
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Premières Funérailles, petit modèle
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Premières Funérailles, petit modèle
signed, numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin 12⁄12 Alexis Rudier.Fondeur.Paris' (on the front of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (to the interior)
bronze with dark brown patina and green undertones
height: 8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.)
Conceived before 1889, and cast in bronze by Fonderie Rudier, Paris, in 1945
Premières Funérailles, petit modèle
signed, numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin 12⁄12 Alexis Rudier.Fondeur.Paris' (on the front of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (to the interior)
bronze with dark brown patina and green undertones
height: 8 ¾ in. (22.3 cm.)
Conceived before 1889, and cast in bronze by Fonderie Rudier, Paris, in 1945
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owner in June 1959.
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 2005V79IB.
Acquired from the above by the late owner in June 1959.
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 2005V79IB.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 259, p. 93 (marble version illustrated p. 112).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 108.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S.591, pp. 618-619 (another cast illustrated p. 619).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 108.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S.591, pp. 618-619 (another cast illustrated p. 619).
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