Lot 418
  • 418

Auguste Rodin

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • Tête de l'homme au nez cassé, version dite type II, premier modèle
  • Inscribed A. Rodin, dated © by Musée Rodin 1969 and inscribed with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris.; stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)
  • Bronze
  • Height: 10 1/8 in.
  • 25.8 cm

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor, New York (acquired from the above in July 1969)
Acquired from the above in the early 1970s

Literature

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 16, illustration of the marble version p. 30
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, no. 5, illustration of another cast n.p.
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of another cast p. 106
Robert Descharnes & Jean-Francois Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of another cast p. 28
Rodin (exhibition catalogue), Hayward Gallery, London, 1970, no. 1, illustration of another cast p. 24
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, illustration of another cast p. 106
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 79, illustration of another cast p. 475
Jacques de Caso & Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 50, illustration of another cast p. 253
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, no. 20, illustration of another cast p. 38
Cécile Goldscheider, August Rodin: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, vol. I, Lausanne, 1989, no. 13a, illustrations of another cast p. 43
Rodin en México, Collection of European Sculpture from the XIX and XX Centuries (exhibition catalogue), Museo Soumaya, Mexico City, 1997, n.n., illustration in color of another cast p. 6
Iain Ross & Anthea Snow, eds., Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, no. 107, illustration in color of another cast p. 117
Rodin en 1900, L'Exposition de l'Alma (exhibition catalogue), Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, no. 102, illustration of another cast p. 243
Rodin (exhibition catalogue), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2006-07, no. 7, illustration in color of another cast p. 42
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 496, illustrations of other casts pp. 414-18
Bernard Barryte & Roberta K. Tarbell, Rodin and America, Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936, Milan, 2011, no. 5, illustration in color of another cast p. 24

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. Blackish brown patina. Affixed to a base at one point on the underside. Some surface dirt in the deeper crevices. A few tiny spots of patina rubbing in the hair, otherwise fine.
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