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The Mastbaum Bronzes: Property from the Family of Jules E. Mastbaum
Auguste Rodin
Femme accroupie, taille originale dite aussi "petit modèle"
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May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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The Mastbaum Bronzes: Property from the Family of Jules E. Mastbaum
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Femme accroupie, taille originale dite aussi "petit modèle"
plaster
height: 12½ in.
31.8 cm.
Conceived in 1881-82 and cast by Paul Cruet in 1928.
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 2023-6771B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Etta Wedell Mastbaum, Philadelphia (acquired as a gift from the above in 1928)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Etta Wedell Mastbaum, Philadelphia (acquired as a gift from the above in 1928)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Léonce Bénédite, Rodin, London 1924, pl. XX, illustration of a bronze version
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris 1929, no. 71, p. 44, illustration of a bronze version
Edouard Herriot, Rodin, Paris 1949, no. 18, illustration of a bronze version
Jean Charbonneaux, Les Sculptures de Rodin, Paris 1951, pls. 24-25, illustration of a bronze version
Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris 1952, p. 24, illustration of a bronze version
Denys Sutton, Triumphant Satyr: The World of Auguste Rodin, London 1966, pl. 20, illustration of a bronze version
Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris 1967, p. 93, illustrations of a bronze and terracotta version
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris 1969, pp. 89-90, pl. 22, illustration of a bronze version
John L. Tancock, Rodin Museum Handbook, Philadelphia 1969, no. 9, p. 34, illustration of a bronze version
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London 1974, pp. 58-59, illustrations of a bronze and terracotta version
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, no. 6, pp. 137-39, illustrations of a bronze and terracotta version
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, New York 1980, no. 1357, pl. 31, illustration of the clay model
Hélène Pinet, "Les Photographies de Rodin," Photographies, September 1983, no. 2, pp. 42, 48, 52, 54, 56 and 58
Hélène Pinet, Rodin sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris 1985, no. 80, p. 95, illustration of a bronze version (dated 1880-81)
Albert E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford 1985, fig. 76, p. 84, illustration of the clay model
Catherine Lampert, Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, London 1986, no. 70, pp. 57-60, illustration of the bronze version
Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris 1988
Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, New Haven 1993, p. 191, pl. 78, illustration of a bronze version
Mary L. Levkoff, Rodin in His Time, Los Angeles 1994, nos. 15-16, pp. 68-71, illustration of a bronze version
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Hélène Marraud, Rodin à Meudon: La Villa des Brillants, Paris 1996, no. 43, p. 74, illustration of the terracotta version
Anne Pingeot, "Rodin au Musée du Luxembourg," La Revue du Musée d'Orsay, Paris 2000, vol. 48/14, no. 30, p. 76, illustration of a bronze version
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris 2007, no. S.1156, pp. 360-63, illustrations of another plaster, marble and bronze versions
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris 1929, no. 71, p. 44, illustration of a bronze version
Edouard Herriot, Rodin, Paris 1949, no. 18, illustration of a bronze version
Jean Charbonneaux, Les Sculptures de Rodin, Paris 1951, pls. 24-25, illustration of a bronze version
Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris 1952, p. 24, illustration of a bronze version
Denys Sutton, Triumphant Satyr: The World of Auguste Rodin, London 1966, pl. 20, illustration of a bronze version
Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris 1967, p. 93, illustrations of a bronze and terracotta version
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris 1969, pp. 89-90, pl. 22, illustration of a bronze version
John L. Tancock, Rodin Museum Handbook, Philadelphia 1969, no. 9, p. 34, illustration of a bronze version
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London 1974, pp. 58-59, illustrations of a bronze and terracotta version
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, no. 6, pp. 137-39, illustrations of a bronze and terracotta version
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, New York 1980, no. 1357, pl. 31, illustration of the clay model
Hélène Pinet, "Les Photographies de Rodin," Photographies, September 1983, no. 2, pp. 42, 48, 52, 54, 56 and 58
Hélène Pinet, Rodin sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris 1985, no. 80, p. 95, illustration of a bronze version (dated 1880-81)
Albert E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford 1985, fig. 76, p. 84, illustration of the clay model
Catherine Lampert, Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, London 1986, no. 70, pp. 57-60, illustration of the bronze version
Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris 1988
Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, New Haven 1993, p. 191, pl. 78, illustration of a bronze version
Mary L. Levkoff, Rodin in His Time, Los Angeles 1994, nos. 15-16, pp. 68-71, illustration of a bronze version
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Hélène Marraud, Rodin à Meudon: La Villa des Brillants, Paris 1996, no. 43, p. 74, illustration of the terracotta version
Anne Pingeot, "Rodin au Musée du Luxembourg," La Revue du Musée d'Orsay, Paris 2000, vol. 48/14, no. 30, p. 76, illustration of a bronze version
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris 2007, no. S.1156, pp. 360-63, illustrations of another plaster, marble and bronze versions