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21 Jun 2011 14:00 BST London, New Bond Street
Impressionist and Modern Art
Back to auction 18861

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Mouvement de danse, étude type D
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin/2/12' (on base of the right foot)
bronze with green and brown patina
33 x 9.7cm (13 x 3 13/16in).
Conceived circa 1911 and cast in 1953 by the Georges Rudier Foundry

Sold for £60,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London.
Private collection, United Kingdom, acquired November 1953.

EXHIBITED
Aldeburgh, The Moot Hall, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Aldeburgh Festival, 19-28 June, 1959, no.29.
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco Gallery, Rodin. A selection from the exhibition 'Rodin Unknown, Louvre', July-August, 1963.

This bronze will be included in the archives for the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Monsieur Jérôme Le Blay under the archive no.2011-3437B.

According to the available information, the the first cast of the work was created by the Musée Rodin from the Alexis Rudier foundry in 1952. Twelve examples were then later cast from the Georges Rudier foundry between 1952 and 1956. One may note that the foundry stamps and numbering witnessed on the various studies within the Mouvement de danse are particulary irregular as they pertain to the specific wish of the fondeur. The various studies of the Mouvement de danse were not cast in bronze before 1950, it was at this time that the Musée Rodin rediscovered the original clay maquettes in their storage.