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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 276

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Figure féminine de l'Éternelle idole, petit modèle

Closed5 February 2008

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GBP 11,250

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Figure féminine de l'Éternelle idole, petit modèle
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the top of the base); numbered, dated and inscribed with the foundry mark 'N 6 Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris. Musée Rodin 1961' (on the side of the base); with the raised signature 'A.Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1882; this bronze version cast in 1961

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Samuel A. Tower, New York, by whom acquired from the above in June 1962.
Arnold W. Gordon, New York.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 2003, lot 251.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The Comité Auguste Rodin under the direction of Jérome Le Blay will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté under the number 2003V383B.