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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2025 | Éternel Printemps, second état, 4ème réduction dite aussi "n ° 2" | Christie's | London | ||||
sculpture
24.8 cm (9.75 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed "Rodin" (on the right side of the base); stamped with the foundry mark "F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur." (on the left side of the base) and twice with the workshop assistant stamp "VL" (on the underside)
Établissements LeBlanc-Barbedienne, Paris.
Private collection, Uruguay, by 1940.
Anonymous sale, Castells, Montevideo, 1 October 2020, lot 44.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l"oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2020-6228B.
L. Maillard, Auguste Rodin , Paris, 1899, no. 16, p. 121 (another version illustrated).
J. Cladel, Rodin, sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue , Paris, 1936, pp. 34-35.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1927, no. 69, p. 42 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1944, no. 113 (another cast illustrated).
H. Martinie, Auguste Rodin , Paris, 1949, no. 27 (another cast illustrated).
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin , London & Melbourne, 1967, p. 130 (another cast illustrated p. 134).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1967, p. 96 (another cast illustrated pls. 56 & 57).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin , London, 1967, nos. 34 & 35, p. 280 (plaster versions illustrated pp. 92 & 93).
L. Steinberg, Other Criteria, Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art , New York & Chicago, 1972, pp. 363-365.
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin , Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32b, pp. 241-247 (marble version illustrated p. 24 & other casts illustrated figs. 32-1 - 32-4.).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin"s Studio , New York, 1980 (another cast illustrated pl. 48).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered , Washington D.C., 1981, p. 68 (another version illustrated fig. 3.13").
R.M. Rilke, Rodin , Salt Lake City, 1982, p. 103 (another cast illustrated p. 18).
D. Finn & M. Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries, The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection , New York, 1991, pp. 227 & 238 (another cast illustrated p. 227).
M.R. Figueiredo, A Escultura Francesca , Lisbon, 1992, pp. 206-213.
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, no. 148, pp. 494-496 (other versions & casts illustrated figs. 413-415).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Camille Claudel, Le temps remettra tout en place , Paris, 2003, p. 11.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S. 777, p. 334 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , New York & London, 2014, no. 139, p. 146 (plaster version illustrated p. 147).
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Éternel Printemps, second état, 4ème réduction dite aussi "n ° 2"
signed "Rodin" (on the right side of the base); stamped with the foundry mark "F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur." (on the left side of the base) and twice with the workshop assistant stamp "VL" (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
height: 9 ¾ in. (24.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1884; this reduction in 1898; this example cast in bronze by the Leblanc-Barbedienne, Paris, between 1905 and 1910
