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PROPERTY FROM A PRESTIGIOUS AMERICAN COLLECTION
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Balzac en redingote
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Balzac en redingote
signed, numbered, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin No 5 © by MUSEE RODIN 1972' (on the left side); inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 ¼ in. (59.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1891 and cast in 1972
Balzac en redingote
signed, numbered, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin No 5 © by MUSEE RODIN 1972' (on the left side); inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 ¼ in. (59.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1891 and cast in 1972
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
B. Gerald Cantor, Los Angeles (acquired from the above).
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, October 1972).
Sam Josefowitz, Lausanne.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 22 May 1982, lot 439.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
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 et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2026-8259B.
B. Gerald Cantor, Los Angeles (acquired from the above).
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, October 1972).
Sam Josefowitz, Lausanne.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 22 May 1982, lot 439.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
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 et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2026-8259B.
Literature
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, 1963, p. 92 (plaster version illustrated).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, no. 91 (plaster version illustrated, p. 182).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 170 (plaster version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 105.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 438 (plaster version illustrated).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, no. 91 (plaster version illustrated, p. 182).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 170 (plaster version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 105.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 438 (plaster version illustrated).
Brought to you by
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale