Lot 22*
AUGUSTE RODIN(1840-1917)Masque de femme au nez retroussé, petit modèle - variante sur piédouche asymétrique sur colonne circulaire
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Masque de femme au nez retroussé, petit modèle - variante sur piédouche asymétrique sur colonne circulaire
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side of the neck)
bronze with green patina
22.6cm (8 7/8in). high (including the column)
Conceived circa 1885-1890, this bronze version cast, likely by the Léon Perzinka Foundry, in 1899.
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side of the neck)
bronze with green patina
22.6cm (8 7/8in). high (including the column)
Conceived circa 1885-1890, this bronze version cast, likely by the Léon Perzinka Foundry, in 1899.
Footnotes
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 & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay.
Provenance
Eugène Rudier Collection, Le Vésinet.
Maurice Arsène Blotiere Collection (a gift from the above circa 1930-1940).
Solange Blotiere Collection (by descent from the above).
Private collection, Netherlands (a gift from the above).
Literature
R. Marx, 'Auguste Rodin', in Pan, Vol. III, April 1897, p. 196.
O. Grautoff, Auguste Rodin, Bielefeld & Leipzig, 1908, no. 27 (another cast illustrated p. 26).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 103 (another cast illustrated p. 50).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, fig. 111-117-1, p. 607 (another cast illustrated p. 611).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1977, no. 34 (plaster version illustrated p. 190).
A. Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, no. 22, p. 181.
A. Le Normand-Romain (ed.), La sculpture dans l'espace, Rodin, Brancusi, Giacometti, exh. cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, 2005, no. 92, pp. 65-66 (other casts illustrated pp. 66 & 101).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S.631 (other casts illustrated pp. 670-671).