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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2022 | Mère et Fille Mourante (Mrs. Merrill and her Daughter Sally) | Freeman's | Philadelphia | ||||
sculpture
82.6 cm (32.52 in)
bronze with verdigris patina
Signed 'A. Rodin' on base, to the right; also with 'ALEXIS RUDIER/Fondeur Paris' foundry stamp on edge of the base verso, to the left
Musée Rodin, Paris.Commissionned directly from the above.Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Merrill, Minnesota and Virginia. By descent in the family.Private Collection, Virginia.
Paul Gsell, "En Haut de la Colline," in L"Art et les Artistes, 1914, p. 20, illustrated (the marble, as Maternité)."Le Musée Rodin," in L"Art et les Artistes, 1919, p. 54, illustrated (the marble, as Maternité).Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l"École Française au XIXe siècle, Vol. 4, Librarie Ancienne Honoré Champion-Édouard, Paris, 1921, p. 170 (the marble, discussed, as Maternité).Léonce Bénédicte, Catalogue Sommaire des Oeuvres d"Auguste Rodin et Autres Oeuvres d"Art de la Donation Rodin, Imprimerie Beresniak, Paris, 1922, cat. no. 33 (the marble, discussed, as Maternité).Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin : Essai Chronologique des Oeuvres d"Auguste Rodin, Lapina Imprimerie, Paris, 1927, p. 102 (the marble, discussed).Georges Grappe et al., Catalogue du Musée Rodin : Essaie Chronologique des Oeuvres d"Auguste Rodin, Éditions du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 376, p. 124, illustrated (the marble).Marcel Aubert and Cécile Goldscheider, Le Musée Rodin, H. Laurens Éditeur, Paris, 1956, p. 15 (the marble, discussed).Ludwig Goldschider, Rodin Sculpture, Phaidon, London, 1964, pl. 83, illustrated (the marble).Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Arted, Paris, 1967, p. 113 (the marble, discussed).Jean-François Chabrun and Robert Descharnes, Auguste Rodin, Edita, Lausanne, 1967, p. 218, illustrated (the marble).Maurice Rheims, La Sculpture au XIXe siècle, Éditions des Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, 1972, p. 140, illustrated (the marble).John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 338 (the marble, discussed).Peter Fusco and H.N Janson, The Romantics to Rodin, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1980, p. 50, illustrated (the marble, as Mrs. Thomas Merrill and her Daughter).Josef A. Schmoll gen Eisenwerth, Rodin-Studien, Prestel-Verlag München, Munich, 1983, p. 117, illustrated (the marble).Rodin et la Sculpture Contemporaine : Compte-Rendu du Colloque Organisé par le Musée Rodin du 11 au 15 octobre 1982 au Musée Rodin, Éditions du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1983, p. 59 (the marble, mentioned).Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin : Collection du Musée, Éditions du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1987, pp. 82-83 and 258, no. 3, illustrated (the marble, as Maternité).Hélène Pinet, Rodin et ses Modèles: Le Portrait Photographié, an exhibition catalogue, Éditions du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1990, pp. 61-65, fig. 97, illustrated p.65 (the marble).Monique Roland, Auguste Rodin, Profils de l"Art/Chênes, Paris, 1999, p. 154, no. 10 (the marble, illustrated as Mère et Fille Mourantes).Ruth Butler, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2000, p. 390, fig. 2, illustrated (the marble, as Mother and Her Dying Child).Auguste Rodin Eugène Carrière, an exhibition catalogue, Éditions du Musée d"Orsay and Flammarion, Paris, 2006, p. 29, 115, cat. no. 57, illustrated (the marble, twice).Rodin : La Fabrique du Portrait, an exhibition catalogue, Éditions du Musée Rodin and Flammarion, Paris, 2009, p. 154, cat. no. 39bis, illustrated (the marble), also illustrated on the inside left cover (the marble).Rodin, La Chair, Le Marbre, an exhibition catalogue, Éditions du Musée Rodin and Hazan, Paris, 2012, p. 98 (the marble, discussed).French Sculpture Census/Répertoire de Sculpture Française: French Sculpture 1500-1960 in North American Public Collections (the bronze, illustrated online at: https://frenchsculpture.org/index.php/Detail/objects/26162).
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917)
Mère et Fille Mourante (Mrs. Merrill and her Daughter Sally)
Signed "A. Rodin" on base, to the right; also with "ALEXIS RUDIER/Fondeur Paris" foundry stamp on edge of the base verso, to the left, bronze with verdigris patina
Height (with base): 32 1/2 in. (82.6cm)
Base: 3 3/4 x 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (9.5 x 69.8 x 69.8cm)
Conceived in 1908-1910. Edition of 2 bronzes.
