Property from a Private European Collection
Auguste Rodin
Frère et sœur
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18,000 - 25,000 EUR
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Property from a Private European Collection
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Frère et sœur
signed A. Rodin, inscribed © by Musée Rodin 1963 and with the foundry mark Georges Rudier. Fondeur, Paris.
bronze
height (without base): 36,8 cm; 14½ in.
height (with base): 41,2 cm; 16¼ in.
Conceived circa 1890 and cast in bronze in 1963 by the Georges Rudier foundry, Paris.
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 2019-5988B.
Musée Rodin, Paris
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in April 1963)
Private collection, Netherlands (probably acquired from the above circa 1965-70)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Leipzig, 1922, no. 35, another version illustrated np.
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 192, p. 81, another version illustrated
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 104, another version illustrated
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 25-2, p. 223, another version illustrated
Clare Vincent, Rodin at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1981, no. 29, p. 28, another version illustrated
John L. Tancock, Rodin en México: Colección de escultura europea de los siglos XIX y XX, Mexico, 1997, no. 36, p. 44, another version illustrated
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, no. S.975, pp. 376-377, another version illustrated