Live Auction 2420Impressionist Modern
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 12

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Tête de jeune enfant (enfant de Mme Merrill)

Closed9 March 2011

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de jeune enfant (enfant de Mme Merrill)
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 8' (on the left side of the neck); inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr' (on the right side of the neck) and inscribed and dated 'C BY MUSÉE Rodin 1981' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 7¼ in. (18.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1908; this bronze version cast in 1981

Musée Rodin, Paris.
B. Gerald Cantor, New York (acquired from the above, May 1981).
Private collection, New York.
By descent from the above to 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 2008-2160B.