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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2025 | Néréides, grand modèle or Trois sirènes or La Vague | Sotheby's | London | ||||
sculpture
43.2 cm (17.01 in)
bronze
inscribed A. Rodin. , dated 1970. , inscribed © by musée Rodin. and with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Pari s.; inscribed A. Rodin (on the underside)
Musée Rodin, Paris
Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo (acquired from the above circa 1972)
Sotheby"s, London, 1 March 2018, lot 405
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Truman H. Bartlett, "Auguste Rodin, Sculptor, I." in The American Architect and Building News , vol. 25, no. 682, 19 January 1889, p. 255
Gustave Geffroy, La vie artistique , Paris, 1893, p. 90
Judith Cladel, Rodin, London, 1936, p. 173
Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art , Cleveland, 1967, no. XIII, pl. 76, other bronze and marble casts illustrated
Exh. Cat., Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo (and travelling in Japan), Exposition Rodin au Japon , 1976-77, no. 30, n.p., another cast illustrated
Rainer Crone and Siegfried Salzmann (eds.), Rodin, Eros and Creativity , Munich, 1992, pl. 4, n.p., another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Museo Soumaya, Mexico City, John L. Tancock, Rodin in Mexico, Collection of European Sculpture from the XIX and XX Centuries , 1997, no. 20, n.p., another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Rodin en 1900, L"Exposition de l"Alma , 2001, no. 24, pp. 106-07, another cast illustrated
Kirk Varnedoe, Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession , London, 2004, no. 89, p. 109, another cast illustrated (titled The Sirens )
Antoine Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin , Paris, 2007, vol. II, no. S. 1069, pp. 652 and 654, another cast illustrated
Property from a Private Collection
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Néréides, grand modèle or Trois sirènes or La Vague
inscribed A. Rodin. , dated 1970. , inscribed © by musée Rodin. and with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Pari s.; inscribed A. Rodin (on the underside)
bronze
height: 43.2 cm.
Conceived in 1887; this example cast in 1970. The present work is from an edition of 7 cast by the Georges Rudier Foundry, Paris in addition to at least 19 known examples.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l"œuvre sculpté d"Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2018-5659B.
