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Auguste Rodin

Tête de garçon rieur

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4,000 - 6,000 EUR

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Description

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Tête de garçon rieur


signed A. Rodin, stamped with the foundry mark ALEXIS RUDIER FONDEUR PARIS ; stamped A. Rodin (in the interior)

bronze

height: 12,5 cm; 4⅞ in.

Conceived circa 1891-92, this bronze cast in 1927.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2022-6660B.

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Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Tête de garçon rieur


signé A. Rodin, porte la marque du fondeur ALEXIS RUDIER FONDEUR PARIS ; porte le cachet A. Rodin (à l'intérieur)

bronze

hauteur: 12,5 cm; 4⅞ in.

Conçue vers 1891-92, cette épreuve fondue en bronze en 1927.


Cette œuvre sera incluse au Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin actuellement en préparation par la Galerie Brame & Lorenceau sous la direction de Jérôme Le Blay sous le numéro d'archive 2022-6660B.

Musée Rodin, Paris

M. Binet, Paris (acquired from the above in November 1942)

Dominique Aubry, Paris (acquired circa 1984)

Private collection, France (by descent from the above)

Christie's Paris, 4 October 2022, lot 57 (consigned by the above)

Private collection, France

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 235, p. 86, another cast illustrated (titled Tête de rieur)

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1931, no. 242, p. 100, another cast illustrated (titled Tête de rieur)

Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 103, another cast referenced (titled Le Rieur and dated 1889)

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 114, pp. 606 and 609, another cast illustrated (dated before 1889)