Auguste Rodin

Madame Morla Vicuña

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March 5, 04:45 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Four Rodin Bronzes from The Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Collection

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Madame Morla Vicuña

inscribed légué a mme Ungemach Benedite en souvenir par A Rodin and with the foundry mark ALEXIS RUDIER. FONDEUR. PARIS. (on the back of the sculpture); stamped A. Rodin (on the interior)

bronze

height: 38.1 cm. 15 in.

Conceived in 1887; this example cast in 1917. The present work is from an edition of 3 cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry, Paris in addition to at least 4 known examples.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2025-7320B.

Please note the cataloguing has been updated. Please refer to the lot page on the website to see full details of the edition size of this sculpture.

Musée Rodin, Paris

Eva Ungemach Bénédite, Strasbourg (acquired as a gift from the above in 1917)

Private Collection (acquired by descent)

(Probably) James Graham & Sons, New York

Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, New York (probably acquired from the above in 1950)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1961 by the present owner

Truman H. Bartlett, "Auguste Rodin, Sculptor, I." in The American Architect and Building News, vol. 25, no. 682, 19 January 1889, p. 250

Gustave Geffroy, La vie artistique, Paris, 1893, pp. 101-02

Léon Maillard, Études sur quelque artistes originaux, Auguste Rodin statuaire, Paris, 1899, pp. 103-05

Frederick Lawton, François-Auguste Rodin, New York, 1908, pp. 81, 88-89, 97 and 176

Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1928, pp. 90-92, marble version illustrated

Carlos Morla, "Devant le buste de ma mère (œuvre de Rodin)" in La Revue du Chili, no. 2, July 1928, n.p.

Judith Cladel, Rodin, London, 1936, p. 149

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 89, marble version illustrated

Exh. Cat., Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, Rediscovered, Washington, 1981, pp. 82, 84-85, marble version illustrated

Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, no. 142

Albert E. Elsen (ed.), Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center of Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 133

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. 2, Paris, 2007, no. S. 504, pp. 527-28, illustrations of other casts