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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2016 | Bonhams | London | Impressionist and Modern Art | 14 | $****** - ****** | Eternel printemps, second état, 1ère réduction |
sculpture
66.2 x 83 x 41 cm (26.06 x 32.68 x 16.14 in)
bronze with brown-black patina
Georges Lang Collection, Lorraine (acquired circa 1910 - 1920).,
Private collection (by descent from the above).,
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in the 1980s)
Rodin later claimed that the idea for the present bronze came to him while listening to Beethoven's Second Symphony. He confided to Jeanne Russell, the daughter of the Australian painter John Russell: 'God, how [Beethoven] must have suffered to write that! And yet, it was while listening to it for the first time that I pictured Eternal Springtime, just as I have modeled it since' (quoted in The Bronzes of Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, p. 336). Also titled Zéphyr et la Terre and Cupidon et Psyché (both mythological titles intended to justify the eroticism of the subject), the group was at the Salon of 1897. Due to its popularity, Rodin executed a second version of Eternel printemps, with an extended base and a rocky outcrop to support the left arm and outstretched leg of the male figure. This version became the model for the Barbedienne series which was produced in four sizes over a period of twenty years from 1898 to 1918
L. Maillard, Etudes sur quelques artistes originaux, Auguste Rodin statuaire, Paris, 1899 (marble version illustrated p. 121).,G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 69. ,G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, pl. 56 (another cast illustrated). ,B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, nos. 34 - 35 (plaster version illustrated pp. 92, 93). ,I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pl. 56 - 57 (another cast illustrated pp. 98, 99). ,J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32b (another cast illustrated p. 243). ,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, no. 148 (other casts illustrated pp. 494, 495). ,A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.2808 (another cast illustrated p. 332)
