Lot 128
  • 128

AUGUSTE RODIN | Danseuse javanaise de profil

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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Description

  • Auguste Rodin
  • Danseuse javanaise de profil
  • ink on tracing paper
  • 14 x 6,3 cm; 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.
Executed circa 1896.

Provenance

Claude Roger-Marx, Paris
Galerie Schmit, Paris
Edouard & Jeannine Chapet (acquired from the above on May 22, 1987)

Condition

Executed on a thin cream wove paper, laid down on Japan paper. The edges are unevenly cut. The ink appears to have slightly faded. The sheet is light stained with a few scattered dots of foxing. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné des dessins et peintures d’Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) being prepared by Christina Buley-Uribe under the archive number 180702.