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AUGUSTE RODIN(1840-1917)Etude de Damnée dite aussi 'Etude no. 1431'
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 9' (on the bottom of the feet) and stamped with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the lower leg)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
9 7/16 in (24 cm) (length)
Conceived circa 1885. This bronze version cast by the Georges Rudier Foundry, Paris in June 1961 in an edition of 12 plus the no. 0 for the Musée Rodin
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.
Fine Art Associates, New York (acquired from the above in November 1961).
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, no. S.434.
Maxime L. & Selma Hermanos Collection, New York (acquired from the above in July 1963).
Miriam H. Knapp Collection, New York (by descent from the above).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exh. cat., Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1963, no. 16 (another cast illustrated).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 67-69-15 (another cast illustrated p. 391).
C. Judrin, M. Laurent & D. Viéville, Auguste Rodin, Le monument des Bourgeois de Calais (1884-1895), Paris, 1977, no. 94 (plaster cast illustrated p. 228).
M. Fath & J.A. Schmoll (eds.), Auguste Rodin, Das Höllentor Zeichnungen und Plastik, Munich, 1991, no. 106 (another cast illustrated p. 130).
A. Le Normand-Romain & H. Marraud, Rodin à Meudon, La Villa des Brillants, Paris, 1996, no. 59 (terracotta version illustrated p. 103).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.650 (another cast illustrated p. 286).
