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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 7, 2014 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Day Sale | 286 | $****** - ****** | Balzac, Étude Type C, Grand Modèle |
sculpture
127.7 cm (50.28 in)
bronze with brown and green patina
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the base); inscribed and dated '© by Musée Rodin 1971' (on the right side of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
Musée Rodin, Paris. Slatkin Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, August 1971). Vivendi Universal Corporate (Seagram) Collection, New York. Acquired from the above by the family of the late owner, circa 2002.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 73, no. 189 (another cast illustrated). A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 219 (larger version illustrated, p. 95). I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 107. A.T. Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, p. 21, no. IV (larger version illustrated, pl. 34). A.E. Elsen, Rodin and Balzac, Los Angeles, 1973, p. 69, no. 27 (larger version illustrated). J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 425, no. 73 (plaster version illustrated, p. 427). A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 403, no. 109 (large bronze version illustrated, pp. 367 and 403). A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 167, no. S. 1074 (another cast illustrated, p. 166).
