Lot 200
  • 200

Auguste Rodin

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • L'un des Bourgeois de Calais: Buste de Jean d'Aire
  • Inscribed Rodin, inscribed Jeanneney and dated 1905

  • Unglazed stoneware

  • Height: 18 in.
  • 45.6 cm

Provenance

Atelier Paul Jeanneney, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired circa 1965)

Literature

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, illustration of the bronze version p. 221

Condition

Work is made of gray biscuit with a dark green patina. There is a nail-head size loss of patina above the signature as well as losses along the bottom edge: two below the figure's face. One significant loss to patina and biscuit at the draping to the right and a few losses towards the bottom at the back. The work is in good condition.
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