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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 6, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 359 | $****** - ****** | Balzac Nu C |
sculpture
128 cm (50.39 in)
bronze
Inscribed A. Rodin and © by Musée Rodin 1974 and stamped with the foundry mark Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris; also stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)
Musée Rodin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1975.
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 189, illustration of the cast in the Musée Rodin Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, illustration of another cast p. 95 Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, New York, 1967, illustration of the smaller version p. 169 Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, catalogued p. 105 Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, illustration of another cast pl. 34 Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Naked Balzac, The Burlington Magazine, London, November 1967, pp. 606-616, illustration of another cast pl. 6 John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, catalogued p. 458 Catherine Lampert, Rodin Sculptures and Drawings, London, 1986, no. 211, illustration of another cast Rodin in His Time: the Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994, no. 33, illustration of another cast p. 110 1898: le Balzac de Rodin (exhibition catalogue), Musée Paris, Rodin, 1998, no. 38, illustration of another cast pp. 288-289 Antoinette le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, illustrations of other casts pp. 166-67
