Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin under the archive number 2000V612B.
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Buste de Saint-Jean Baptiste, étude sur socle carré
Details
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Saint-Jean Baptiste, étude sur socle carré
signed and dated 'A. Rodin ©c by Musée Rodin 1970' (on the right side), inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back)
bronze with black and green patina
Height: 21 5/8 in. (55 cm.)
Conceived circa 1878-1879; this bronze version cast in April 1970
Buste de Saint-Jean Baptiste, étude sur socle carré
signed and dated 'A. Rodin ©c by Musée Rodin 1970' (on the right side), inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back)
bronze with black and green patina
Height: 21 5/8 in. (55 cm.)
Conceived circa 1878-1879; this bronze version cast in April 1970
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above, 1971); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 2000, lot 292.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above, 1971); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 2000, lot 292.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 357-369 (this version described, p. 368).
C. Goldschneider, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, pp. 124-125, no. 102a (another cast illustrated).
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, p. 448, no. 131 (illustrated, p. 450).
C. Goldschneider, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, vol. I, pp. 124-125, no. 102a (another cast illustrated).
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, p. 448, no. 131 (illustrated, p. 450).