
PROPERTY FROM THE WIDZER FAMILY COLLECTION, LOS ANGELES
Lot 12
AUGUSTE RODIN(1840-1917)Main droite dite Main no 22
6 December 2022, 14:00 EST
New YorkSold for US$15,300 inc. premium
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Main droite dite Main no 22
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the wrist)
bronze with dark brown patina
3 5/8 in (9 cm) (height)
Conceived between 1890-1908. This bronze version cast by the Georges Rudier Foundry in December 1960 in an edition of 8
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the wrist)
bronze with dark brown patina
3 5/8 in (9 cm) (height)
Conceived between 1890-1908. This bronze version cast by the Georges Rudier Foundry in December 1960 in an edition of 8
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 February 1961).
Lucille Ostrow and Fausto Riganti Collection, Rome and Los Angeles (by 1994).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Musée Rodin (ed.), Rodin, les mains, les chirurgiens, Paris, 1983 (plaster version illustrated p. 45).