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Auguste Rodin

Balzac, étude type C (buste), 2ème version, grand modèle – variante avec épaules arrondies

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October 4, 04:59 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

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Auguste Rodin

1841 - 1917


Balzac, étude type C (buste), 2ème version, grand modèle – variante avec épaules arrondies

inscribed with the artist's signature, dated 1961, inscribed with the foundry mark Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris and © by Musée Rodin.; stamped with the artist's signature (on the inside)

bronze

height: 12 5/8 in.

32.1 cm.

Conceived in 1892 and in this bust format in 1918 and cast in September 1961.


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 2023-6761B.

Musée Rodin, Paris

Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in December 1964)

Herb and Nell Singer, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, p. 456, illustration of another cast

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York 1963, pp, 88-105, illustration of another cast

Robert Descharnes and Jean-Francois Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London 1967, pp. 164-175, illustration of another cast

Ionel Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris 1967, pp. 104, illustration of another cast