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Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) Balzac, nude study C, small model
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Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) Balzac, nude study C, small model
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Estimate €120,000 - €180,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)
Balzac, nude study C, small model
Proof in bronze with a greenish brown patina, signed Alexis Rudier, foundryman, bears the cache relief A. Rodin and numbered 204 on the base.
(Patina damage).
Height: 75.4 cm
Created around 1892-1893 and cast between 1918 and 1926.
Provenance :
- Galerie Danthon, Paris, one of three cast between 1918 and 1926
- Sale, Collection of Madame J. Danthon, Alphonse Bellier auctioneer and André Schoeller, expert, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 May 1933, catalogue no. 52, withdrawn before the sale.
- Sale of Modern Paintings, watercolours, pastels, drawings, lithographs, sculptures, belonging to Mademoiselle X... (Juliette Danthon), Alphonse Bellier auctioneer and André Schoeller, expert, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 February 1935, catalogue no. 125.
- Docteur Jean Girou (1889-1972) (acquired by M. Bergaud on Girou's behalf at the above-mentioned sale).
- By descent to the present owners.
Exhibitions:
- Balzac et Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, 23 June - September 1950, a similar copy under N°26 of the exhibition.
- Auguste Rodin. Travelling exhibition, Ateneum, Helsinki, Museum of Fine Arts, Turku, Museum of Fine Arts, Tampere and Vaasa Museum, 10 September, 22 December 1965, a similar copy under No. 25 of the exhibition.
- Rodin: sculptures and drawings, Hayward Gallery, London, 24 January - 5 April, a similar copy under n°55 of the exhibition.
- Auguste Rodin, Umjetnicki Paviljion, Zagreb, 3 July - 25 August 1968, a similar copy under n°37 of the exhibition.
- Hommage à Auguste Rodin, Centre Artistique et Littéraire, Rochechouart, 18 April - 18 May 1970, a similar copy.
- Medardo Rosso, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, December 1978 - January 1979, a similar copy under n°186 of the exhibition.
- Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), Skulpturen Zeichnungen. Eine Ausstellung des Musées Rodin, Paris, und Collectors Club, Wien, Orangerie, Palais Auersperg, Vienne, 11 September - 26 October 1980, a similar copy under n°26 of the exhibition.
- Le Balzac de Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, 16 June - 13 September 1998, a similar copy under n°40 of the exhibition.
- ArchiSKULTPUR, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, 3 October 2004 - 30 January 2005, a similar copy under n°159 of the exhibition.
Bibliography:
- Le Vrai Rodin by Gustave Coquiot, Éditions Jules Tallandier, Paris, 1913, chapter devoted to Balzac pages 141 to 152.
- Zola et la statue de Balzac, in: Bulletin de la Société Littéraire des Amis d'Émile Zola, Paris, no. 2, 1 January 1923.
- Catalogue of the Musée Rodin, by Georges Grappe, Paris, 1927, a similar example, described and reproduced on page 73 under no. 189.
- Jean Girou collectionneur d'Art moderne by Paul Santenac, In: Septimanie, Revue d'Art, Avril -Septembre 1942, this bronze is mentioned on page 22.
- Auguste Rodin by Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Edita Lausanne, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1967, chapter devoted to the Balzac, pages 164 to 175, a similar example is described and reproduced on page 169.
- Rodin by Lionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Paris, 1967, a similar copy, page 107.
- The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, by J.L. Tancock, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, chapter devoted to Balzac, pages 425 to 459, a plaster cast, small model, described and reproduced under no. 73 on pages 425 and 427.
- Rodin et le bronze, catalogue des œuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, by Antoinette Lenormand Romain, Paris, RMN, 2007, vol. 1, a similar example reproduced on page 165. - Expert : Agnès SEVESTRE-BARBE
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