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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Bonhams | London | Impressionist and Modern Art | 6 | $****** - ****** | Age d'airain, petit modèle dit aussi 2ème réduction |
sculpture
64.5 cm (25.39 in)
bronze with black-brown patina
signed 'Rodin' (on the base), inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (to the verso) and stamped with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the base)
(Possibly) Marcel Cachin Collection, Paris.
Charles & Colette Cachin Collection, Paris (in the 1950s).
Olivier Ferrer-Cachin Collection, London (by descent from the above).
Thence by descent to the present owners.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929 (plaster version illustrated p. 31)
M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952 (another cast illustrated pl. 11).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1962 (another cast illustrated pp. 54 - 55).
A. E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963 (another cast illustrated p. 20)
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967 (other casts illustrated pls. 6 & 7)
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London, 1967 (larger cast illustrated p. 53 & plaster version illustrated p. 54).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pl. 64 (larger cast illustrated pp. 343 & 345).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Vol. 1, 1840 - 1886, Paris, 1989, no. 95d (other casts illustrated pp. 114, 115 & 117).
I. Ross & A. Snow (eds.) in association with The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, no. 17 (another cast illustrated p. 28).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. 1, Paris, 2007 (plaster version and other casts illustrated pp. 121 - 128).
Age d'airain, petit modèle dit aussi 2ème réduction
signed 'Rodin' (on the base), inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (to the verso) and stamped with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the base)
bronze with black-brown patina
64.5 cm (25 3/8in). high
Conceived between 1875 - 1877, this reduction from November 1904. This bronze version cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry between 1935 - 1945.
