Auguste Rodin

Buste de jeune femme coiffée de roses et portant une croix autour du cou

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May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Property from the Meier Family Collection

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Buste de jeune femme coiffée de roses et portant une croix autour du cou

inscribed A Rodin

terracotta

height: 13 in. 33.2 cm.

Conceived circa 1875.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre 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 2024-7146B.

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 December 1984, lot 13

Private Collection, France (acquired by 1992)

Galerie Elstir, Paris

Roger and Laura Meier, Portland (acquired from the above in December 1999)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin. Vie et oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1989, no. 67, p. 86, illustrated

Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin: Catalogue raisonné – Werkverzeichnis, Paris, 1992, no. 67a, p. 86, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, Vers l'âge d'airain: Rodin en Belgique, 1997, no. 37, pp. 146-47, illustrations of other versions

Portland Art Museum, Paris 1900: City of Entertainment, 2019