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Property from the Collection of Sidney Rothberg

Auguste Rodin

Tête de Saint Jean-Baptiste, modèle de profil, version avec plateau fin, grand modèle

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the Collection of Sidney Rothberg

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917


Tête de Saint Jean-Baptiste, modèle de profil, version avec plateau fin, grand modèle

incised A. Rodin

marble

length: 14 ½ in. 35.6 cm.

Conceived in plaster in 1887 and executed in marble between April and October 1891.


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 2008-1888B.

Auguste Rodin, Paris

Fritz Thaulow, Paris (acquired from the above in exchange for a painting in 1892)

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-7 May 1907, lot 194 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Auguste Rodin, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

(probably) Judith Cladel, Paris (acquired from the above)

M. Zivy, Paris (probably acquired from the above by 1940)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

M. Jean Petrel, Paris (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 1 July 1981, lot 258b (consigned by the above)

Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Oslo, Statens Kunstudstilling, 1892, no. 174

Paris, Pavillon de l’Alma, Exposition de 1900: L’Oeuvre de Rodin, 1900, no. 98

Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Rodin, 1907, no. 92B

Ional Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 101, mention of the bronze version

Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 84-85, illustration of the bronze version

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 21, pp. 205-09, illustrations of other versions

Alain Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, pp. 115 and 189

Daniel Rosenfeld, Auguste Rodin’s Carved Sculpture, Stanford, 1993, no. 41, pp. 54 and 416, illustrated

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, pp. 645-48, illustrations of other versions

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, Rodin la chair, la marbre, 2012, p. 62