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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 10, 2019 | Bonhams | London | Impressionist and Modern Art | 30 | $****** - ****** | L'un des Bourgeois de Calais: Tête de Jean d'Aire, moyen modèle |
sculpture
14.4 cm (5.67 in)
bronze with brown patina with green accents
signed 'A. Rodin', inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1966.' (on the right side of the neck), inscribed with the foundry mark '.Georges. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (to the left side of the neck) and stamped with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in May 1966).
David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney (acquired from the above).
Sir Warwick & Lady Fairfax Collection, Sydney (acquired from the above by 1969).
Thence by descent to the present owners.
Montreal, Dominion Gallery, Cinquantenaire de la mort de Rodin, May - June 1967, no. 8.
C. Judrin, M. Laurent & D. Viéville, Auguste Rodin, Le monument des Bourgeois de Calais (1884 - 1895) dans les collections du musée Rodin et du musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, exh. cat., Paris, 1977 (monumental version illustrated pp. 236 - 237).
M. J. McNamara & A. E. Elsen, Rodin's Burghers of Calais, Rodin's Sculptural Studies for the Monument to the Burghers of Calais from the Collection of the Cantor, Fitzgerald Group, 1977 (monumental version illustrated p. 36).
L. Ambrosini & M. Facos, Rodin, The Cantor Gift to The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1987 (monumental version illustrated p. 103).
M. L. Levkoff, Rodin in his Time, The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1994 (monumental version illustrated p. 99).
I. Ross & A. Snow in association with the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London & New York, 2001 (monumental version illustrated p. 62).
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 (monumental version illustrated pp. 115 - 116).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.6068 (monumental version illustrated p. 221).
signed 'A. Rodin', inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1966.' (on the right side of the neck), inscribed with the foundry mark '.Georges. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (to the left side of the neck) and stamped with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina with green accents
14.4cm (5 11/16in). high
Conceived between 1886 - 1887, this bronze version cast in February 1966 by the Georges Rudier Foundry.
