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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 4, 2015 | Bonhams | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art | 120 | $****** - ****** | L'Eternel printemps, 2ème état, 4ème réduction dite aussi 'no 4 | |||
May 3, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 155 | $****** - ****** | Éternel Printemps, Second État, 4ème Réduction Dite Aussi n°4 |
sculpture
24.4 cm (9.61 in)
bronze with dark green patina
As with many of his sculptures, including the near-contemporary model that became Le Baiser, Rodin was hesitant about settling on titles, preferring the forms to speak for themselves and indeed to represent archetypes rather than be pinned down to specific subjects. Judith Cladel recalled that her father the poet Léon Cladel had read aloud to Rodin from Victor Hugo's Chansons des Rues et des Bois and Feuilles d'Automne, to help him find a title, but the sculptor had evaded the question (A. Le Norman-Romain, op. cit., p. 335). Contemporary critics, and indeed the French public, were shocked by such a naturalistic expression of the human form without the mediation of a chastely mythological title, and the model was as Zéphyr et la terre and Cupidon et Psyché before it was finally settled as L'Éternel Printemps at exhibition in 1900
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