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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 344 Property from the Collection of Professor and Mrs George Hamilton

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Tête de Balzac, dernier état, version au col coupé derrière l'oreille

Closed4 November 2010

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de Balzac, dernier état, version au col coupé derrière l'oreille
signed 'A. Rodin' and inscribed with foundry mark 'Georges.Rudier Fondeur PARIS' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1897; this bronze version cast in 1953

Musée Rodin, Paris.
M. Planes, Paris (acquired from the above, December 1955).
World House, New York (acquired from the above, December 1955).
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1957.

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 2010-3227B.