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Property from a Member of the Cooper-Hewitt Family
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Fragment de l'homme qui tombe dit aussi "Torse de l'homme qui tombe avec tête"
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Fragment de l'homme qui tombe dit aussi "Torse de l'homme qui tombe avec tête"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N° 3⁄8' (on the right side); inscribed and dated '© BY MUSEE Rodin 1983' (on the back); inscribed with the foundry mark 'E. GODDARD. Fondr' (on the left side)
bronze with dark brown patina
11 x 7 ¾ x 3 7⁄8 in. (27.9 x 19.7 x 9.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1904; this bronze version cast in 1983
Fragment de l'homme qui tombe dit aussi "Torse de l'homme qui tombe avec tête"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N° 3⁄8' (on the right side); inscribed and dated '© BY MUSEE Rodin 1983' (on the back); inscribed with the foundry mark 'E. GODDARD. Fondr' (on the left side)
bronze with dark brown patina
11 x 7 ¾ x 3 7⁄8 in. (27.9 x 19.7 x 9.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1904; this bronze version cast in 1983
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo (acquired from the above, 1985).
Anon. (acquired from the above); sale, Christie’s, New York, 9 May 2013, lot 229.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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 2013-4105B.
Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo (acquired from the above, 1985).
Anon. (acquired from the above); sale, Christie’s, New York, 9 May 2013, lot 229.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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 2013-4105B.
Literature
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 429-430, no. S. 1341 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
Sendai, Miyagi Museum of Art; Sapporo, Museum of Contemporary Art and Ibaraki, Museum of Modern Art, Rodin, 150e anniversaire de sa naissance, May-December 1990, no. 34.
Presentado por
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale