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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 409 | $****** - ****** | Fugit amor, grand modèle, deuxième version |
sculpture
52.7 x 207 cm (20.75 x 81.5 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin Nº 1' (on the front of the rock), inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the left side of the rock), with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Eugène Rudier, Paris (acquired from the above).
Mme Eugène Rudier, Paris (by descent from the above, 1952).
Private collection, France (gift from the above, circa 1954); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 April 1994, lot 32.
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale).
Univers du Bronze, Paris (acquired from the above).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, vol. I, p. 76, no. 201 (plaster version illustrated, p. 77).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 142, no. 77 (marble version illustrated, pl. 77).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 61 (smaller version illustrated; dated 1880-1882).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 90 (plaster version illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 92.
A.T. Spear, "A note on Rodin's Prodigal Son and on the Relationship of Rodin's Marbles and Bronzes," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, fall 1969, p. 33 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 202, no. 20-4 (smaller version illustrated, p. 203).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, p. 18 (plaster version illustrated, pls. 32-33).
A.E. Elsen, Figures from Rodin's Gates of Hell: The B.G. Cantor Collection, Ithaca, 1984, no. 18 (smaller version illustrated).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du musée, Paris, 1987, pp. 112-113 (marble version illustrated).
R. Crone and S. Salzmann, eds., Rodin: Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, p. 198 (another version illustrated, p. 199, fig. 13).
J. Vilain et al., Rodin at the Musée Rodin, London, 1997, p. 38 (marble version illustrated in color).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 378-383 (other versions illustrated; smaller version illustrated in color, p. 90).
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin Nº 1' (on the front of the rock); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the left side of the rock); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 20 ¾ in. (52.7 cm.)
Length: 32 1/8 in. (81.5 cm.)
Conceived before 1887; this bronze version cast circa 1944-1945
