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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 207 Property from the Collection of Lew and Edie Wasserman

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Main droite n. 01, petit modèle

Closed2 November 2011

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main droite n. 01, petit modèle
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 3' (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark 'Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back); dated and inscribed '1958 C by musée Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 4½ in. (11.4 cm.)
Conceived by 1901; this bronze version cast in 1958

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Edgardo Acosta Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, March 1961).
Acquired from the above by Lew and Edie Wasserman, Los Angeles, May 1961.

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 2011-3646B.