Property from an Important New York Collection
Auguste Rodin
Buste de Victor Hugo dit 'À l’illustre maître', réduction avec piédouche intégré
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Property from an Important New York Collection
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Buste de Victor Hugo dit 'À l’illustre maître', réduction avec piédouche intégré
inscribed A. Rodin, with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris. and © by musée Rodin 1970; stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)
bronze
height: 14 ⅞ in. 37.8 cm.
Conceived in 1883; this version conceived circa 1892; this example cast in 1970.
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 2026-8336B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in September 1971)
IEGOR, Montreal, 12 March 2002, lot 91
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 87b, p. 504, illustration of another cast; p. 507
Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1989, no. 132b, p. 174, illustration of another cast
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 497, pp. 434-35, illustration of another cast
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