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PROPERTY FROM THE WIDZER FAMILY COLLECTION, LOS ANGELES
Lot 11

AUGUSTE RODIN
(1840-1917)
Main gauche n°19, petit modèle

6 December 2022, 14:00 EST
New York

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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Main gauche n°19, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the wrist)
bronze with green and dark brown patina
3 9/16 in (9 cm) (height)
Conceived between 1885-1905. This bronze version cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry in May 1945

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
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Edgardo Acosta Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in May 1964).
Lucille Ostrow and Fausto Riganti Collection, Rome and Los Angeles (by 1994).
Thence by descent to the present owner.



According to the knowledge available, the Rodin Museum had at least 1 plaster example executed from its collections by Alexis Rudier in 1945 and then 10 examples were cast by Georges Rudier between 1964 and 1972.

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