Auguste Rodin
Torse d'Adèle
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Auguste Rodin
Paris 1840 - Meudon 1917
Torse d'Adèle
inscribed A. Rodin, with the foundry mark Georges Rudier Fondeur. Paris and © by musée Rodin 1959; stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)
bronze
Height: 17 ½ in., 44.5 cm
Conceived circa 1878-82; this example cast in 1959.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2019-6013B.
Musée Rodin, Paris;
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above in March 1960);
Lilian Browse, London (acquired from the above in 1960);
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above);
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1990);
Sotheby's, London, 30 June 2022, lot 441 (consigned by the above);
Where acquired by the present collector.
London, Hayward Gallery, Rodin, Sculptures and Drawings, 1 November 1986 - 25 January 1987, no. 82, p. 23, fig. 42, reproduced; p. 208.
J. Cladel, Rodin, sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 134-35.
R. Descharnes and J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, New York, 1967, p. 80, reproduction of the plaster.
K. Clark, The Romantic Rebellion, Romantic Versus Classic Art, New York, 1973, no. 260, p. 335, reproduction of the plaster.
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 98, 136 and 241; p. 246, fig., 32-1, reproduction of the plaster.
Exh. Cat., Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (and traveling), Le Corps en morceaux, 1990, no. 162, pp. 146-47, reproduction of the plaster.
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, The Gates of Hell, Paris, 2002, p. 61, reproduction of the plaster.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 6137, p. 681, reproduction of another cast.
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