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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Day Sale | 1282 | $****** - ****** | Iris, messagère des dieux, étude sans tête, petit modèle |
sculpture
41 cm (16.13 in)
bronze with green and black patina
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, March 1965).
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above, 1965); sale, Bonhams, New York, 4 November 2014, lot 8.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 68, no. 171 (another cast illustrated).<br>M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 50 (another cast illustrated).<br>R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 249 (plaster version illustrated).<br>I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 103 (another cast illustrated, pl. 77).<br>J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 288 and 291 (another cast illustrated, p. 290, fig. 46-2).<br>A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980 (larger version illustrated in situ, fig. 95).<br>A.E. Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981, p. 111 (larger version illustrated, fig. 5.13).<br>J.M. Roos, "Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo, Art and Politics in the Third Republic," The Art Bulletin, vol. 68, no. 4, December 1986, pp. 650-656 (another cast illustrated, fig. 24).<br>A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 452-454 (another cast illustrated, fig. 1).
