Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 216 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE AUDREY BURTON, O.B.E.

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Nijinski, étude

Closed24 June 2009

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GBP 67,250

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Nijinski, étude
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin No. 12' (on the front of the left leg); dated and inscribed '© by Musée Rodin 1959' (on the back of the left leg)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1912 and cast by the Musée Rodin in a numbered edition of thirteen between 1958 and 1959; this bronze version cast in January 1959

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Gérald Cramer, Lausanne, by whom acquired from the above in July 1959.
Sir Kenneth Clark, London.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London.
Acquired from the above by the late owner on 30 March 1971.

Specialist note

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 2009-2570B.