Auguste Rodin

Athlète, version type B dite aussi tête regardant à droite

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150,000 - 250,000 USD

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Property from a Private Collection

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Athlète, version type B dite aussi Tête regardant à droite

inscribed A. Rodin., with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. and © by musée Rodin 1965 and numbered 12; stamped A. Rodin (on the interior)

bronze

height: 17 ¾ in. 45.1 cm.

Conceived in 1904; this example cast in 1965.

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 2025-7587B.

Musée Rodin, Paris

Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1967)

Private Collection, Chicago (acquired in the late 1960s)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, Municipal Museum and Fukuoka Cultural Center, Rodin, 1966, no. 85

Montreal, Dominion Gallery, Fiftieth Anniversary of Rodin’s Death, 1967, no. 50, p. 19, illustrated

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art; The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 473-76

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 141-42, illustration of another cast

Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 205, illustration in color of another version

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 57, pp. 318-22, illustration of another cast