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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 13, 2023 | Christie's | London | Masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship | 37 | $****** - ****** | Age d’Airain, grand modèle |
sculpture
181.6 cm (71.5 in)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
signed ‘Rodin" (on the right of the base); stamped with the foundry mark ‘Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris" (on the back of the base)
Musée Rodin, Paris, by August 1929.
François Ducharne, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in 1929, and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 30 May 1967, lot E.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Pully, Maison Pulliérane, Dessins de sculpteurs français de Rodin à nos jours, September - October 1968, no. 179.
Lausanne, Fondation de l"Hermitage, L"Impressionnisme dans le collections Romandes, June - October 1984, no. 83, p. 174 (illustrated).
F. Lawton, The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin , London, 1906, pp. 45, 47, 49 & 52 (plaster version illustrated).
J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin, L"homme et œuvre , Paris, 1908 (plaster version and another bronze cast illustrated pp. 86 & 88; titled "Le réveil de l"humanité").
F. Dujardin-Beaumetz, Entretiens avec Rodin , Paris, 1915, p. 12.
G. Coquiot, Rodin , Paris, 1915, pp. 9 & 11 (another cast illustrated pl. 3).
H. de Régnier, L"Art moderne et quelques aspects de l"art d"autrefois , Paris, 1919 (another cast illustrated pl. 138).
L. Bénédite, Rodin , London, 1926, no. 6, p. 5 (another cast illustrated pl. 6).
K. Scheffler, Die europäische Kunst im neunzehnten Jahrhundert : Malerei und Plastik , vol. II, Berlin, 1927, pp. 292 & 347 (another cast illustrated p. 291).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1929, no. 18, pp. 30 & 31 (another cast illustrated).
H. Martinie, Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 , Paris, 1949, no. 13.
C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1962, pp. 54 & 55 (other casts illustrated).
H. Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture , London, 1964, pp. 12 & 302 (another cast illustrated pl. 2).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin , London, 1967, no. 12, pp. 47-53 (another cast illustrated pp. 48, 49, 51 & 53).
A. Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, pp. 39, 94 & 95 (another cast illustrated pl. 56).
R. Descharnes & J.- F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin , London, 1967, p. 52 (another cast illustrated p. 53).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1967, p. 85 (another cast illustrated nos. 6-7, pp. 122 & 123).
A. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, pp. 21-26, 70, 191, 192, 194, 196, 207, 208 & 211 (another cast illustrated p. 20).
J. Hawkins, Rodin Sculptures , London, 1975, no. 1, p. 16 (another cast illustrated pls. 1 & 2, pp. 35 & 36).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin , Philadelphia, 1976, no. 64, pp. 342-349 (other casts illustrated).
J. de Caso & P. B. Sanders, Rodin"s Sculpture, San Francisco, 1977, no. 1, pp. 39-47 (another cast illustrated in situ in the Ducharne residence, pp. 24, 38, 43 & 45).
A. Elsen, In Rodin"s Studio : A photographic record of sculpture in the making , New York, 1980, pp. 9, 10, 12, 22, 29, 30, 36, 158, 159, 161, 163, 170, 180 & 186 (plaster versions illustrated figs. 2 & 5, pp. 36 & 37).
A. Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered , exh. cat., Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1981, pp. 23 & 33 (another cast illustrated figs. 1.7 & 1.32).
F. Camrad, Ruhlmann , Paris, 1983, p. 142 (another cast illustrated in situ ).
E.G. Güse, Auguste Rodin: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle , exh. cat., Munster, 1984, p. 356 (another cast illustrated fig. 13).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonné de l" œ uvre sculpté , vol. I, 1840-1886, Paris, 1989, no. 95, pp. 114-117 (another cast illustrated).
M. Laurent, Rodin, London, 1990, p. 42 (plaster version illustrated p. 24; another cast illustrated p. 43).
R. Crone & S. Salzmann, Rodin: Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, pp. 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 42, 43, 58, 186, 208 & 210 (plaster version illustrated fig. 2, p. 9; other casts illustrated fig. 15, p. 42).
H. Marraud, ‘Return to Paris", in Rodin: At the Musée Rodin , Paris, 1996, pp. 23 & 25 (another cast illustrated p. 25).
N. Mograbi, ‘The Age of Bronze", in Muséart: Hors-série , Paris, vol. 28 F, 1998, pp. 8 & 9 (another cast illustrated p. 9).
J. A. Schmoll, Rodin and Camille Claudel , Munich, 1999, pp. 19-21 & 125 (another cast illustrated p. 20).
R. Masson & V. Mattiussi, Rodin, Paris, 2004, p. 151 (other casts illustrated pp. 150 & 151).
C. Mitchell, ed., Rodin: The Zola of Sculpture , Aldershot, 2004, pp. 21, 69, 107, 147, 184 & 187 (another cast illustrated fig. 13.1, p. 239).
A. Le Normand-Romain, in "The Greatest of Living Sculptors" in Rodin , London, 2006 (other casts illustrated figs. 7 & 10).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.468, pp. 121-129 (other casts illustrated).
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Age d"Airain, grand modèle
signed ‘Rodin" (on the right of the base); stamped with the foundry mark ‘Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris" (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 71 ½ in. (181.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1875-1876; this example cast in bronze in April 1929
