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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 367

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Tête de Balzac, derniere état, version au col coupé derrière l'oreille

Closed8 November 2012

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de Balzac, derniere état, version au col coupé derrière l'oreille
signed, inscribed, dated and inscribed with foundry mark 'A. Rodin © by musée Rodin 1957 .Georges Rudier..Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1897; this bronze version cast in 1957

Musée Rodin, Paris.
M.G. Comarain, Paris (acquired from the above, May 1957).
Edgardo Acosta Gallery, Los Angeles (1961).
Acquired by the family of the present owner, circa 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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2012-3999B.