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Property from an Important Private Collection, Dallas
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
La toilette de Vénus
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
La toilette de Vénus
signed, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin 1966' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (to the interior)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
18 3⁄8 x 9 ¾ x 7 7⁄8 in. (46.6 x 24.8 x 20.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1899; this bronze version cast in 1966
La toilette de Vénus
signed, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin 1966' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (to the interior)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
18 3⁄8 x 9 ¾ x 7 7⁄8 in. (46.6 x 24.8 x 20.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1899; this bronze version cast in 1966
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
World House Galleries (Herbert Mayer), Greenwich (acquired from the above, April 1967).
Pensler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988.
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 2026-8365B.
World House Galleries (Herbert Mayer), Greenwich (acquired from the above, April 1967).
Pensler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988.
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 2026-8365B.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 56, no. 159 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 68 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 100, pl. 59 (marble version illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 172 and 172 (other versions illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 680 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 68 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 100, pl. 59 (marble version illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 172 and 172 (other versions illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 680 (another cast illustrated).
Presentado por
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale