Auguste Rodin

signed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris., inscribed © by musée Rodin 1964.

height: 16⅛ in.

41 cm.

Musée Rodin 

Charles Slatkin Gallenes, New York (acquired from the above in March 1965)

Private Collection, San Diego, (acquired from the above in 1965)

Bonham's, New York, 4 November 2014, lot 8

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above sale)

Bowman Sculpture, London (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above on 22 June 2018 by the present owner

Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 98, illustration of another cast and p. 143

Jean Charbonneaux, Les Sculptures de Rodin, Paris, 1949, p. 65, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, Rodin inconnu, 1962-63, no. 75, pp. 40 and 113

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Auguste Rodin, 1963, no. 13, n.p., illustration of a larger cast

Albert Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 151, 181, 185, illustration of a larger cast and pp. 222 and 225

Exh. Cat., New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries (and traveling), Auguste Rodin 1860-1917: An Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings, 1963-65, no. 70, p. 61, illustration of a larger cast

Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, no. 77, illustration of a larger cast and p. 103

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1967, pp. 74, 288, 290-91, illustration of a larger cast and pp. 421 and 663

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (and traveling), Homage to Rodin: Collection of B. Gerald Cantor, 1967-69, no. 38, pp. 13 and 66-67, illustration of a larger cast

Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery, Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings, 1970, no. 72, p. 74, illustration of a larger cast

Albert Elsen, Origins of modern sculpture: pioneers and premises, New York, 1974, no. 30, illustration of another cast, pp. 22, 116, 168 and 178

Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 316, 321 and 358

Albert Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A photographic record of sculpture in the making, Ithaca, 1980, no. 95, illustration of a larger cast (shown in the artist's studio) and pp. 178 and 191

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Rodin Rediscovered, 1981-82, no. 282, p. 111, illustration of a larger cast, pp. 123, 144, illustration of plaster models and pp. 125, 257, 288, 335 and 347

J.A. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, Rodin-Studien, Munich, 1983, no. 94, p. 138, illustration of another cast and pp. 400, 407, 520 and 555

Hélène Pinet, Rodin: Sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 57, p. 69, illustration of a larger cast (shown in the artist's studio)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rodin: The B. Gerald Cantor Collection, 1986, no. 60, pp. 132, 138-39, illustrations of a larger cast (shown from two different angles) and pp. 167, 175

Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery, Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, 1986-87, nos. 141 and 144, pp. 121-23, illustrations of a larger cast (shown from two different angles) and pp. 220-21

Exh. Cat., Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Rodin: La collection du brasseur Carl Jacobsen à la Glypothèque-et oeuvres apparentées, 1988, pp. 31-32, illustration of a larger cast (shown in the artist's studio)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Bremen (and traveling), Rodin: Eros and Creativity, 1992-93, pp. 189, 192, 198 and 230

Mary L. Levkoff, Rodin in his Time: The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1994, no. 43, pp. 136-37, illustration of a larger cast and pp. 140, 148, 210 and 223

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, Rodin, Whistler et la Muse, 1995, p. 72, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Andros, Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Auguste Rodin - Camille Claudel, 1996, no. 34, illustration of a larger cast and pp. 23, 163 and 261

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, Rodin et la Hollande, 1996, no. 52, pp. 37, 55 and 105-106, illustration of a plaster model

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (and traveling), Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo, 1998-2000, no. 17, pp. 97 and 99, illustration of a larger cast and p. 118

Aida Audeh, Rachael Blackburn and Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, et al., Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Los Angeles, 2001, no. 51, pp. 37 and 68, illustration of a larger cast and pp. 71 and 181

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Rodin en 1900: L'exposition de l'Alma, 2001, no. 67, pp. 73 and 186-87, illustrations of a larger cast (shown from two different angles) and pp. 190, 218, 424 and 452

Albert E. Elsen and Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 575, 577-78, illustration of a larger cast (shown in the artist's studio) and p. 656

Raphaël Masson and Véronique Mattiussi, Rodin, Paris, 2004, pp. 101, 182, illustration of a larger cast and p. 245

Exh. Cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Rodin Beuys, 2005, pp. 92-93, illustration of a larger cast

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, pp. 32-33, 51, illustration of another cast (installed in Zurich, 1947) and pp. 54, 59-60, 103, illustration of a larger cast and pp. 124, 185, 289, 296, 368 and 370

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, pp. 425, 442, 452-53, illustration of a larger cast and 454, illustration of another cast and 455, illustration of a larger cast (shown in the artist's studio) and pp. 555-56, 583, 798 and 810

Exh. Cat., Nice, Musée Matisse, Matisse & Rodin, 2009-10, no. 196, pp. 122-23, illustration of a larger cast and p. 149