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IRIS MESSAGÈRE DES DIEUX, ÉTUDE SANS TÊTE, PETIT MODÈLE by Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, Paris (19 Oct 2017)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Oct 19, 2017
Sotheby'sParisModernités : de Rodin à Soulages4
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IRIS MESSAGÈRE DES DIEUX, ÉTUDE SANS TÊTE, PETIT MODÈLE
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Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Dimensions

41 cm (16.14 in)

Materials

bronze

Signature

signed A. Rodin

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris

Maurice and Florence Ghiglion, Cannes (acquired from the above in June 1946)

Private collection, France

Literature

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 171, illustration of another cast p. 68

Albert Sigogneau, "Le tourment de Rodin," L'Amour de l'art, Paris, December 1935, illustration of another cast p. 379

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 248, illustration of another cast p. 85

Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, illustration of another cast p. 50

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, illustration of another cast p. 185

Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of another cast pl. 77

Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of the terracotta p. 249

Homage to Rodin: Collection of B. Gerald Cantor (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, no. 38, illustration of another cast p. 66

Rodin (exhibition catalogue), The Hayward Gallery, London, 1970, no. 72, illustrations of another cast pp. 68 and 74

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, illustrations of another cast pp. 290-92

Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, illustration of the plaster pl. 95

Albert E. Elsen (ed.), Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, illustration of another cast p. 111

Albert E. Elsen, Auguste Rodin from the B.G. Cantor Sculpture Garden, New York, 1981, illustration of another cast p. 35

Hélène Pinet, Rodin Sculpteur et Les Photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 57, illustration of another cast p. 69

Catherine Lampert, Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1986, no. 141, illustration of the smaller version p. 221; no. 144, illustrations of another cast pls. 206-07

Jane Mayo Roos, "Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo: Art and Politics in the Third Republic," in The Art Bulletin, New York, December 1986, fig. 24 illustration of another cast p. 655

Joan Vita Miller and Gary Marotta, Rodin, The B. Gerald Cantor Collection (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, no. 60, illustrations of another cast pp. 132 and 138

Bernard Champigneulle, Rodin, Paris, 1989, illustration of another cast p. 105

Mary L. Levkoff, Rodin in His Time, Los Angeles and New York, 1994, no. 43, illustration of another cast p. 137

Ruth Butler, La solitude du génie, Paris, 1998, no. 138, illustration of another cast p. 187

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, pp. 452-55, another cast illustrated fig.1 p. 454

Description

signed A. Rodin

bronze

height: 41 cm; 16 1/8 in.

Conceived in 1890-91, this example cast in bronze by Alexis Rudier  in 1945.