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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 4, 2010 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist/ Modern Evening Sale | 38 | $****** - ****** | Bénédictions, Grand Modèle, Version D'après Le Marbre |
sculpture
90.4 cm (35.59 in)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark and dated 'Georges Rudier.Fondeur. Paris c by musée Rodin 1955' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
Musée Rodin, Paris. World House Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 1955). Herbert Mayer, Connecticut (acquired from the above);
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 306.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and elsewhere, The Rodin Bronzes: Sculpture from the B. Gerald Cantor Collections Exhibition Schedule 1988-1993, November 1988-April 2001. Utah Museum of Fine Arts and elsewhere, Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, May 2001-August 2009.
G. Mourey, in Lécho de Paris, September 1898. L. Bénédite, Rodin, London, 1924, p. 31 (another cast illustrated, pl. LIII). F. Watkins, Rodin Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1929, no. 11 (another cast illustrated, p. 11). G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 272 (marble version illustrated). E. Waldmann, Auguste Rodin, Vienna, 1945, pp. 51 and 77, no. 56 (illustrated, pl. 56). A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 46-47 (plaster version illustrated, p. 210). I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 106. R. Descharnes and J. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 146, 149 and 152. J.L. Tancock, Rodin Museum Handbook, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 47, no. 42. J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 294-297, no. 47 (another cast illustrated, p. 295). J. Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculptures: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 45. A. Le Normand-Romain, ed., "Un mécène aussi généreux que discret. Les commandes de sculpture de Maurice Fenaille à Rodin" in Durey, 1998, pp. 14-33, no. 63. A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, New York, 2003, pp. 144, 146 and 147 (another cast illustrated, p. 146). A. Le Normand-Romain, ed., The Bronzes of Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 28, 37, 97, 199-202 and 373, vol. II, pp. 431, 519 and 609, no. S.967 (another cast illustrated in color, pp. 97 and 200).
