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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 26, 2019 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 2 | $****** - ****** | FEMME ACCROUPIE, PETIT MODÈLE |
sculpture
31.9 cm (12.56 in)
bronze
inscribed A, stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin on the underside of the base bronze
Sir Gerald Kelly, London (acquired from the artist in September 1904)Lady Kelly, London (by descent from the above. Sold: Christie's, London, 4th December 1979, lot 23)
Private Collection, Great Britain
Sale: Christie's, London, 2nd December 1985, lot 2
Browse & Darby, London
Mr Roos (sold: Sotheby's, London, 5th April 1989, lot 125)
Private Collection, England (sold: Christie’s, New York, 8th November 2000, lot 1)
Galerie Pels-Leusden, Zurich (purchased at the above sale)
Dr Joachim Theye, Zurich (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Zurich (by descent from the above in 2006)
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2007
London, Hayward Gallery, Rodin Sculpture & Drawings, 1986-87, no. 70, illustrated in the catalogueLondon, Waddington Galleries, Of the Human Form, 1995, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue
London, Browse & Darby, British & French Paintings, Drawings, Prints & Sculpture, 2000, no. 42, illustrated in the catalogue
Léonce Bénédite, Rodin, London, 1924, a larger cast illustrated pl. XXGeorges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 71, another cast illustrated p. 44
Edouard Herriot, Rodin, Paris, 1949, no. 18, a larger cast illustrated
Jean Charbonneaux, Les Sculptures de Rodin, Paris, 1951, another cast illustrated pls. 24-25
Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, another cast illustrated p. 24
Denys Sutton, Triumphant Satyr: The World of Auguste Rodin, London, 1966, a larger cast illustrated pl. 20
Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, the terracotta version and a larger cast illustrated p. 93
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1969, edition catalogued p. 89; pl. 22, another cast illustrated p. 90
John L. Tancock, Rodin Museum Handbook, Philadelphia, 1969, no. 9, another cast illustrated p. 34
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, the terracotta and a larger cast illustrated pp. 58-59
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 6, the terracotta and two other bronze casts illustrated pp. 137-139
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, New York, 1980, no. 1357, the clay illustrated pl. 31
Hélène Pinet, 'Les Photographies de Rodin' in Photographies, September 1983, no. 2, pp. 42, 48, 52, 54, 56 & 58
Hélène Pinet, Rodin sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 80, another cast illustrated p. 95 (as dating from 1880-81)
Albert E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford, 1985, fig. 76, the clay illustrated p. 84
Frederic V. Grunfeld, Rodin, A Biography, New York, 1987, mentioned pp. 187-188, 270 & 455
Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, index
Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, New Haven, 1993, pl. 78, another cast illustrated p. 191
Mary L. Levkoff, Rodin in His Time, Los Angeles, 1994, nos. 15-16, another cast illustrated pp. 68-71
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain & Hélène Marraud, Rodin à Meudon: La Villa des Brillants, Paris, 1996, no. 43, the terracotta illustrated p. 74
Anne Pingeot, 'Rodin au Musée du Luxembourg' in La Revue du musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2000, vol. 48/14, no. 30, another cast illustrated p. 76
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, no. S.1156, another cast and plaster version illustrated pp. 361-362; the present cast listed p. 360
inscribed A. Rodin; stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin on the underside of the base
bronze
height: 31.9cm.
12 1/2 in.
Conceived in 1881-82. This example was cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry, Paris in August 1902.
