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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 6, 2011 | Cornette de Saint-Cyr | Paris | Art Impressionniste et Moderne | 23 | $****** - ****** | Faunesse à genoux |
sculpture
53.8 cm (21.18 in)
white Carrara marble
signed and dedicated 'Au Maitre Puvis de Chavannes Rodin' (on the right side of the base)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a gift from the artist, probably between 1890 and 1896.
Edmond Lanhoffer, Poissy, by whom acquired in the 1920s, and thence by descent; sale, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 6 July 2011, lot 23.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Paris, Musée Rodin, Rodin, La chair, le marbre, June 2012 - March 2013, no. 14, p. 134 (illustrated pp. 135-137; dated 'circa 1890').
Paris, Musée Rodin, L'Enfer selon Rodin, October 2016 - January 2017, no. 143, n.p. (illustrated; dated 'circa 1890'); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Fundación Mapfre, October 2017 - January 2018, no. 111, pp. 228-229 & 282 (illustrated p. 228; dated 'circa 1887').
Paris, Grand Palais, Rodin: Le Livre du centenaire, March - July 2017, no. 279, p. 366 (illustrated p. 296).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 1927, no. 95, p. 48 (plaster version illustrated; dated ‘1886’).
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, London & Melbourne, 1967, p. 77 (bronze cast illustrated; dated ‘1884’).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 90 (bronze cast referenced; dated ‘1884’).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, p. 119 (plaster version illustrated pl. 32; dated ‘1884’).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 11, p. 168 (bronze cast illustrated pp. 169-170; dated ‘circa 1884’).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Oxford, 1980, p. 179 (plaster version illustrated figs. 97-98, n.p.; dated ‘before 1884’).
D.G. Rosenfeld, Auguste Rodin's Carved Sculptures, Stanford, 1993, no. 47.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 627 (bronze cast illustrated p. 626; plaster version illustrated fig.3, p. 628).
signed and dedicated 'Au Maitre Puvis de Chavannes Rodin' (on the right side of the base)
white Carrara marble
Height: 21 ¼ in. (53.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1887; this example carved between 1890 and 1896
