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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 431 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Petit buste de la martyre

Closed10 February 2011

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GBP 22,500

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Petit buste de la martyre
signed, numbered and inscribed 'A.Rodin. No1 © by musée Rodin.1962' (on the left shoulder); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier. Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the right shoulder); with the raised signature 'A Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885 and cast in bronze by Georges Rudier in 1962

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Alan Roger, London.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 2 October 1990, lot 28.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2010-3325B.