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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

L'un des Bougeois de Calais: Andrieu d'Andres, vêtu, réduction

Closed7 May 2009

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'un des Bougeois de Calais: Andrieu d'Andres, vêtu, réduction
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'ALEXIS.RUDIER.FONDEUR.PARIS' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 16¾ in. (42.5 cm.)
Conceived 1881-1895; the reduced version conceived in 1900; this bronze version cast circa 1930-1940

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Private collection, Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. François Schwarz, New York (acquired from the above, 1954); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 7 November 2001, lot 104.
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 Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2001-10B.