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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 297 Property from a Private American Collection 

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste de Camille Claudel

Closed2 November 2011

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de Camille Claudel
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base); inscribed and dated 'C by musee Rodin 1963' (on the right side)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.)
Conceived circa 1882; this bronze version cast in 1963

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above, June 1963).
Bruton Gallery, London (1993).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1998, lot 479.
Acquired at the above sale by 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 Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2011-3644B.