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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 222 Property from the Collection of Max Palevsky

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle

Closed4 November 2010

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, étude type C, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark, inscribed and dated 'Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris. c by musée Rodin 1958' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 29¾ in. (75.6 cm.)
Conceived circa 1892-1893; this bronze version cast in 1958

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above, December 1964).
L.A. Kolker, Scarsdale (acquired from the above, February 1965).
Obelisk Gallery, Boston.
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, January 1969.

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 2010-3253B.