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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 308 Property from a Private American Collection 

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

La Fuite

Closed2 November 2011

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USD 25,000

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
La Fuite
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 12' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'E. GODARD Fondr' (on the right side of the base); inscribed and dated 'C BY MUSEE RODIN 1972' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 9½ in. (24.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885; this bronze version cast in 1972

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Gérald Cramer, Geneva (acquired from the above, April 1974).
Claus Griesser, Switzerland.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1999, lot 248.
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 Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 1999-700B.