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1077 - Auguste RODIN (1840–1917) Right Hand No.
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Estimate €10,000 - €12,000
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Auguste RODIN (1840–1917) Right Hand No. 13, small model – designed between 1885 and 1905. Bronze cast with a nuanced brown patina on a marble plinth. Cast by Georges Rudier in June 1953. Signed on the base. H: 8.4; W: 6.4; W: 4.4 cm (excluding plinth) Notice of inclusion stating that this bronze will be included in the catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Jérome Le Blay under No. 2025-7665B. Note: Cast by Georges Rudier in June 1953. According to the production records of the Georges Rudier foundry, it is known that the workers Marin, a moulder, and Lamoette, a chiseller and assembler, worked for 3 hours on the moulding, 2 hours on the chiselling and 1 hour on the assembly of this bronze, respectively. The patina was applied by master foundryman Pourrez. The Rodin Museum commissioned two copies from the plaster model in its collections from the Alexis Rudier foundry between 1945 and 1948, followed by ten copies from the Georges Rudier foundry between 1953 and 1963. Rodin devoted a great deal of time to working on the extremities of his figures, particularly the hands, in order to exploit their expressive power, whether attached to the body or isolated as works in their own right. Standing alone, or sometimes repeated in series with unique variations, the hands constitute a repertoire of forms from which the sculptor could draw as he pleased to complete his fragmentary figures or create original assemblages… Rodin’s hands are free-standing hands, which require no attributes to explain or express a situation or an identity. Exhibition: - “Rodin, Hands, the Surgeon”, Paris, 1983 (another example reproduced in the catalogue under no. 1.11, p. 36) Provenance: - Musée Rodin, Paris - Acquired from the museum by a Parisian collector in January 1955 – Private collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine – Acquired from the same collector in 2005.
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