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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2018 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 35 | $****** - ****** | Iris, messagère des Dieux, étude sans tête, grand modèle |
sculpture
86.7 x 83.6 cm (34.13 x 32.91 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed ‘A. Rodin’ (on the bottom of the right foot), inscribed with foundry mark ‘.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris. (on the back of the base), inscribed ‘© by musée Rodin 1966’ (on the side of the base)
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in April 1968.
David Bassine, New York, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 April 1978, lot 15.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 2015, lot 51.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 171, p. 68 (another cast illustrated).
A. Sigogneau, 'Le tourment de Rodin', in L'Amour de l'art, Paris, December 1935, p. 379 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 248, p. 85 (another cast illustrated).
M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 50 (another cast illustrated).
A. E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 181 (another cast illustrated p. 185).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 103 (another cast illustrated pl. 77).
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London, 1967 (the terracotta illustrated p. 249).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, no. 40, p. 280 (another cast illustrated p. 105).
A. E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, p. 185 (another cast illustrated).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 290 (another cast illustrated).
A. E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A photographic record of sculpture in the making, Oxford, 1980, p. 178 (another cast illustrated pl. 95).
Exh. cat., Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, 1981, no. 5.13, p. 111 (another cast illustrated).
H. Pinet, Rodin, sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 57, n.p. (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Rodin Sculpture & Drawings, London, 1986, no. 141, p. 220 (another cast illustrated p. 221).
J. Mayo Roos, 'Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo: Art and Politics in the Third Republic', in The Art Bulletin, vol. 68, no. 4, New York, December 1986, p. 654 (another cast illustrated fig. 24, p. 655).
M. L. Levkoff, Rodin in His Time, Los Angeles & New York, 1994, no. 43, p. 136 (another cast illustrated p. 137).
R. Butler, La solitude du génie, Paris, 1998, no. 138 (another cast illustrated p. 187).
Exh. cat., Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo, Los Angeles, 1998, p. 99 (another cast illustrated fig. 61).
R. Blackburn et al., Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, Los Angeles, 2001, no. 51, p. 68 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S1068, p. 452 (another cast illustrated pp. 452 & 453).
signed ‘A. Rodin’ (on the bottom of the right foot); inscribed with foundry mark ‘.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris. (on the back of the base); inscribed ‘© by musée Rodin 1966’ (on the side of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height including the integral base: 38 1/8 in. (86.7 cm.)
Width: 32 7/8 in. (83.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1890-1891; enlarged circa 1896; this example cast in 1966
