Auguste Rodin
Torse féminin assis dit aussi "Torse Morhardt," grand modèle
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Auguste Rodin
Paris 1840 - Meudon 1917
Torse féminin assis dit aussi "Torse Morhardt," grand modèle
inscribed A. Rodin, with the foundry mark G Rudier Fondeur Paris and © by musée Rodin 1957 and numbered No. 8
bronze
Height 14 ½ in.
36.8 cm
Conceived circa 1895; this enlargement conceived before 1899; this example cast in 1957-58.
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 2011-3629B.
Musée Rodin, Paris;
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above in October 1959);
Samuel Joséfowitz, Lausanne (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1982, lot 434;
Andrew Grabis (acquired from the above sale);
Mrs. Iris Cantor, New York (acquired from the above in 1985);
Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2011, lot 371 (consigned by the above);
Where acquired by the present collector.
O. Grautoff, Auguste Rodin, Bielefeld, 1908, p. 82, reproduction of the plaster (titled Studie für die Iris am Victor Hugo-Denkmal).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 288 and 292-93, fig. 46-7, reproduction of the plaster (titled Torso of a Woman Clasping her Left Leg).
J. de Caso and P. B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, 1977, no. 67, p. 320, reproduction of another cast.
A. E. Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, no. 289, p. 321, reproduction of another cast.
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, Rodin et la Hollande, 1996, no. 18, p. 55, reproduction of the plaster.
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, A Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 521, pp. 685-86, reproduction of another cast.
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