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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 449 | $****** - ****** | Eternel printemps, second état, 2ème réduction dite aussi "taille no 4" |
sculpture
52.1 x 170.2 cm (20.5 x 67 in)
bronze with brown patina
signed 'Rodin' (on the back); inscribed with foundry mark 'F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR' (on the left side of the rock)
Galerie Zborowski, Paris.
Galerie M. Bousso, Paris.
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, August 1966).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 13 May 1977, lot 605.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
L. Maillard, Auguste Rodin, Statuaire, Paris, 1899, pp. 121-122 (marble version illustrated, fig. 16).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 42, nos. 69-70 (plaster and another version illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 141 (another version illustrated, pl. 56).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London, 1967, p. 135 (larger version illustrated in color, p. 134).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96 (another cast illustrated, pls. 56-57).
L. Steinberg, Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford, 1972, p. 428, no. 232 (marble version illustrated, p. 365).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 241, 244-245 and 247, no. 32b (other versions illustrated, pp. 242-243 and 246, figs. 32-3 and 32-4).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 494-497, no. 148 (another cast illustrated, pp. 494-495, fig. 413 and larger version illustrated, p. 496, fig. 414).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 334-337 (another cast illustrated, p. 334; terracotta version illustrated, p. 334; other versions illustrated, p. 336 and marble version illustrated, p. 337).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, New York, 2013, p. 146 (plaster version illustrated, p. 147, fig. 139).
signed 'Rodin' (on the back); inscribed with foundry mark 'F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR' (on the left side of the rock)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 20 ½ in. (52 cm.)
Length: 26 ½ in. (67 cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this bronze version cast in 1910-1918
