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Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- Auguste Rodin
- Iris, Messagère des Dieux, Etude avec Tête à la Jambe Droite Levée
- inscribed A Rodin and numbered no. 6 (lower left thigh); inscribed with the foundry mark E. Godard Fondr. Paris (below lower left thigh); also inscribed © by Musée Rodin 1971 (behind lower left thigh)
- bronze with dark brown patina with traces of grey-green, on a black marble base
- Height: 6 in. excluding base
- 15.2 by 8.9 by 8.9 cm.
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris
Acquired from the above by B. Gerald Cantor, Beverly Hills, October 1971
(Sale: Sotheby's New York, May 21, 1981, lot 608)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by B. Gerald Cantor, Beverly Hills, October 1971
(Sale: Sotheby's New York, May 21, 1981, lot 608)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Albert Elsen, Rodin, 1963, illustrated p. 150
Catalogue Note
To be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin, being prepared by the Comité Rodin under the archive number 2006V920B.
Conceived in 1890. According to François Lorenceau and Jérôme Le Blay, 13 examples of this bronze, numbered 0 to 12, were cast for the Musée Rodin by the Emile Godard Foundry between 1969 and 1973; the present example was cast in February 1971.