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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 8, 2014 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 150 | $****** - ****** | Balzac, Étude Drapée Dite Avec Un Capuchon Et Un Jabot De Dentelle |
sculpture
111.8 cm (44.02 in)
bronze
Inscribed A. Rodin, numbered No. 4/8, dated © By Musée Rodin 1984 and inscribed with the foundry mark E. Godard Fond
Musée Rodin, Paris
B.G. Cantor, New York (acquired from the above in 1985)
Bruton Gallery, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1990
Cécile Goldscheider, "La genèse d'une oeuvre: Le Balzac de Rodin" in La Revue des Arts, Paris, March 1952, no. 13, illustration of the plaster p. 44; Albert E. Elsen, Rodin & Balzac: Rodin's sculptural studies for the Monument to Balzac, Los Angeles, 1973, fig. 35, illustration of the plaster p. 34; John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 441 & 459; Kirk T. Varndoe, "In Detail: Rodin and Balzac" in Portfolio Magazine of Fine Arts, New York, 1982, illustration of the plaster p. 97; Monique Laurent, ed., Rodin (exhibition catalogue), Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 1984, no. 55, illustration of another cast p. 103; Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, La Statue de Balzac: étapes de sa réalisation, Paris, 1985, p. 9; Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, New Haven, 1993, illustration of the plaster pl. 121; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, 1898: le 'Balzac' de Rodin (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris, 1998, fig. 144, illustration of another cast p. 24; Marie-Françoise Sassier, Le Balzac de Rodin, Tours, 1999, no. 27, illustration of another cast p. 43; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.1369, illustration of another cast pp. 179-80;
