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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 310

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Saint-Jean Baptiste, petit modèle

Fermé5 February 2009

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GBP 73,250

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Saint-Jean Baptiste, petit modèle
signed and inscribed with the foundry mark 'A.Rodin Thiébaut Frères Fumière et Gavignot Scrs Paris' (on the top of the base); numbered '5804' (on the inside of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 19 5/8 in. (49.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1878 and in this size in 1898; this bronze version cast between 1899 and 1905

Collection Latarjet, Lyon, by whom acquired circa 1910, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 10 May 2001, lot 343.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

The Comité Auguste Rodin under the direction of Jérome Le Blay will include this work in their forthcoming Rodin Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté under the number 2000-128B.