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Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)
Lot 548 THREE HANDS BY AUGUSTE RODIN FROM A DISTINGUISHED FAMILY COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)

Main droite no. 13, petit modèle

Closed28 February 2019

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GBP 12,500

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Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)
Main droite no. 13, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the wrist)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.)
Conceived between 1885 and 1905; two bronzes cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry between 1945 and 1948; ten examples cast by the Georges Rudier Foundry between 1953 and 1963; this example cast in 1962

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above in January 1963.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 June 2014, lot 488.
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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2013-4283B.