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Auguste Rodin and Albert Carrier-Belleuse

L'Innocence tourmentee par l'Amour

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October 1, 05:17 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

L'Innocence tourmentée par l'Amour

signed CARRIER-BELLEUSE (on the base)

Biscuit de Sèvres

height: 23 in.

58.4 cm.

Conceived in 1871; this Biscuit de Sèvres version cast by Compagnie des Bronzes, Belgium by 1910.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2005-1165B.

Private Collection, Brussels (acquired circa 1930)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Pennsylvania (acquired from the above in 2005)

S. Pieron, "François Rudier et Auguste Rodin à Bruxelles," La Grande Revue, Paris, 1902, p. 154

New York, Jill Newhouse Gallery, Auguste Rodin, Intimate Works, March 2011, no. 3, n.p. (illustrated in color in the catalogue)

Paris, Galerie Brame et Lorenceau, Rodin, Sculptures, Dessins et photographies, January-February 2006, no. 3, pp. 54-55 (illustrated)