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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 343

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Main no. 20, petit modèle

Closed6 November 2013

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USD 21,250

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main no. 20, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the front)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.)
Conceived in 1890-1908; this bronze version cast by Alexis Rudier in 1945

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Private collection, France (acquired from the above, February 1947).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 May 1997, lot 161.
Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 26 September 2002, lot 522.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of 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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2002-204B.