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Lot 239

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Masque de l'Iris, messagère des dieux, petit modèle

Closed7 May 2009

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Masque de l'Iris, messagère des dieux, petit modèle
signed, numbered, inscribed with foundry mark and dated 'A. Rodin N7 c by musée Rodin 1965' (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark 'G Rudier Fon' Paris' (on the left side)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 4½ in. (11.4 cm.)
Conceived by 1894; this bronze version cast in 1965

Musée Rodin, Paris.
M. Geladakis, France (acquired by the above, May 1967).
Acquired by the present owner, 2003.

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2004-481B.