Property from the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
Auguste Rodin
Premières Funérailles, Moyen Modèle. or Le Purgatoire
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Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Bid
60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Premières Funérailles, Moyen Modèle or Le Purgatoire
inscribed A. Rodin, numbered No 1 and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris
bronze
height: 61.8 cm. 24⅜ in.
Conceived in 1889; this example cast by Alexis Rudier, Paris in 1942-44. This work is number 1 from an edition of 4.
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 2016-5052B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Eugène Rudier, Le Vésinet (acquired from the above in 1944)
Galerie Jean de Ruaz, Paris (acquired from the above after 1945)
Jean de Ruaz, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Galerie Dépot 15, Paris (acquired by 1981)
Galerie Vallois, Paris (acquired by 1985)
Private Collection, Japan
Acquired from the above by the present owner for the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art between 1985 and 1990
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Auguste Rodin, 1963, no. 25 (titled Mourning I (Premiéres Funérailles))
Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 5 Rooms. Sculpture / Arts Objects / Three Dimensional Works, 2013
Exh. Cat., Sakura, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Selected Works from Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, 1990, no. 22, pp. 72-73, illustrated in colour
Antoine Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 591, pp. 619-620, another cast illustrated
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