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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 445

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Balzac, étude type C (buste), 3ème version, petit modèle

Closed21 June 2018

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GBP 21,250

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, étude type C (buste), 3ème version, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the left edge of the neck) and inscribed with foundry mark 'A. Rudier . Fr Paris' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 6 1/2 in. (16.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1892; this cast executed between 1927 and 1933

Galerie Haussmann [M. Gustave Danthon], Paris, before 1933.
Private collection, Israel, by whom acquired in the 1980s, and thence by descent.

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2018-5744B.