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A Legacy of Innovation: Works From The Collection of William S. Paley Sold to Benefit the Museum of Modern Art and other Charitable Organizations

Auguste Rodin

Le Désespoir de la porte

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November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

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A Legacy of Innovation: Works From The Collection of William S. Paley Sold to Benefit the Museum of Modern Art and other Charitable Organizations

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Le Désespoir de la porte

inscribed with artist's signature and stamped with the foundry mark A. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris; stamped with artist's signature (on the underside)

bronze

height: 7 in.

17.8 cm.

Conceived in 1890; this example executed in 1944.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2007-1276B.

Musée Rodin, Paris
Eugène Rudier, Le Vésinet (acquired from the above in February 1944)
William S. Paley, New York
Acquired by bequest in 1990 by the William S. Paley Foundation

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, S. 268, p. 305, illustration of another cast

New York, The Museum of Modern Art (on loan from 1990)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art, The William S. Paley Collection, 1992-1994, no. 64, p. 171, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Iris)