Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Étude dite type I pour la tête de Balzac dite aussi Tete de Balzac souriant

inscribed with the artist's signature, dated 1972, numbered n°3 and inscribed with the foundry mark Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris and © Musée Rodin; stamped with the artist's signature (on the inside)

bronze

height : 6 ¾ in

17.1 cm

Conceived circa 1893 and cast in 1972.

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 2023-6969B.