Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
Property from the Louis J. C. Tan Collection
Auguste Rodin
Age d’Airain (moyen modele or 1st réduction)
Lot Closed
March 26, 12:35 PM GMT
Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Louis J. C. Tan Collection
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Age d’Airain (moyen modele or 1st réduction)
inscribed A. Rodin,© by Musée Rodin 1956 and stamped with the foundry mark Georges Rudier Fondeur, Paris
bronze
Height: 104cm., 41in.
Conceived in 1875-76. This reduced size conceived in 1903-1904 and cast in bronze in three editions between 1913 and 1971; this work cast in 1956 by the Georges Rudier Foundry in an unnumbered edition of 19.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l’œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin in collaboration with Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2021-6313B.
Mme Jean Schlumberger, Paris (acquired in September 1957)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Étude Morelle-Charbonneaux, 18th February 1981
Mme de Rybeiro, Liechtenstein (purchased at the above sale)
Mr Harry Krampf, Paris (sold: Sotheby's, New York, 30th June 1981, lot 24)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, larger version illustrated pp. 11-13
Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1962, another cast illustrated pp. 54-55
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, another cast illustrated p. 20
lonel Jianou & Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967 illustration of a larger cast, pp. 6-7
Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, another cast illustrated pp.53-54
Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture, Cleveland, 1967, no. VII, another cast illustrated pp.94-95 and p. 38
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, larger version illustrated pp. 343 & 345
Cecile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpte, Lausanne, 1989, vol. I, no. 95d, another cast illustrated p. 116
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, another cast illustrated pp. 121-28