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Modern Discoveries
Étude dite type I pour la tête de Balzac dite aussi Tete de Balzac souriant
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October 4, 05:00 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
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Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Étude dite type I pour la tête de Balzac dite aussi Tete de Balzac souriant
inscribed with the artist's signature, dated 1972, numbered n°3 and inscribed with the foundry mark Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris and © Musée Rodin; stamped with the artist's signature (on the inside)
bronze
height : 6 ¾ in
17.1 cm
Conceived circa 1893 and cast in 1972.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin in collaboration with Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2023-6969B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in July 1975)
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 11 December 1980, lot 3
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967, pl. 18, p. 11, (illustration of plaster version)
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