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The Passionate Collectors: Property from Marlene and Spencer Hays
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Les yeux clos
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Les yeux clos
signed, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin 1960' (on the right side of the neck) and inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back edge); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (to the interior)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
4 7⁄8 x 3 3⁄8 x 4 3⁄8 in. (12.3 x 8.7 x 11.2 cm.)
Conceived circa 1888-1890; this bronze version cast in March 1960
Les yeux clos
signed, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin 1960' (on the right side of the neck) and inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back edge); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (to the interior)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
4 7⁄8 x 3 3⁄8 x 4 3⁄8 in. (12.3 x 8.7 x 11.2 cm.)
Conceived circa 1888-1890; this bronze version cast in March 1960
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse and Delblanco Gallery, London (acquired from the above, February 1961).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 June 1995, lot 22.
Acquired at the above sale by Marlene and Spencer Hays.
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 2025-7676B.
Roland, Browse and Delblanco Gallery, London (acquired from the above, February 1961).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 June 1995, lot 22.
Acquired at the above sale by Marlene and Spencer Hays.
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 2025-7676B.
Literature
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 715-716, no. S. 633 (another cast illustrated).
Presentado por
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale