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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 252 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTOR

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Mouvement de danse, étude type E

Closed2 November 2011

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Mouvement de danse, étude type E
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No. 12' (on the underside of the foot); inscribed and dated 'C by musée Rodin 1957' (on the left hand)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 14 1/8 in. (35.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1911; this bronze version cast in 1957

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Huguette Bérès, Paris (acquired from the above, 1957).
Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York (acquired from the above, July 1957).
Fine Arts Associates, New York.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 1958.

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 2011-3647B.