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PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Femme drapée, assise (Psyché)
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Femme drapée, assise (Psyché)
signed and inscribed 'en hommage de sympathie à Madame Berte Elisseieff A Rodin' (lower right)
watercolour and pencil on paper
12 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. (32.5 x 25 cm.)
Executed circa 1904
Femme drapée, assise (Psyché)
signed and inscribed 'en hommage de sympathie à Madame Berte Elisseieff A Rodin' (lower right)
watercolour and pencil on paper
12 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. (32.5 x 25 cm.)
Executed circa 1904
Provenance
Mme Barbe 'Berte' Elisseieff, France, a gift from the artist.
Werner & Nelly Bär, Zurich, by whom acquired in 1949; their estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 30 March 1977, lot 91.
Private collection, London, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Werner & Nelly Bär, Zurich, by whom acquired in 1949; their estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 30 March 1977, lot 91.
Private collection, London, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
W. Bär, Sammlung Werner und Nelly Bär, Zurich, 1965, p. 263 (illustrated p. 213; titled 'Femme assise').
Exhibited
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Die Plastiksammlung Werner Bär, September - November 1951, no. 155, p. 20 (titled 'Femme assise').
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Zwei Zürcher Sammlungen, Werner Bär - Plastik, Kurt Sponagel - Graphik, August - September 1959, no. 170 (titled 'Sitzender weiblicher Akt'); this exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunstmuseum, September - November 1959.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Zwei Zürcher Sammlungen, Werner Bär - Plastik, Kurt Sponagel - Graphik, August - September 1959, no. 170 (titled 'Sitzender weiblicher Akt'); this exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunstmuseum, September - November 1959.
Further details
This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Auguste Rodin's drawings and paintings currently being prepared by Christina Buley-Uribe.
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