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Auguste Rodin
Éternel printemps, second état, 3ème réduction
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May 18, 09:51 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Éternel printemps, second état, 3ème réduction
inscribed with artist's signature; numbered 29 and stamped three times with the letter I (on the interior); inscribed with the the foundry mark F.Barbedienne.Fondeur.France
bronze
height: 15½ in.
39.3 cm
Conceived in 1884; this reduced size conceived in 1898; this example executed between 1910-15.
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 2017-5612B.
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 15 November 2017, lot 124 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, nos. 69-70, p. 42, illustration of another cast
Judith Cladel, Rodin, London, 1936, p. 97, illustration of the marble version
Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 87, pl. 5, illustration of another cast
Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London and Melbourne, 1967, p. 134, illustration of another cast
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pls. 56-57, illustration of another cast
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32b, p. 246, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Rodin, 1984, no. 63, p. 111, illustration of another cast
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.777, p. 334, illustration of another cast