Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 323

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Balzac, dernière étude pour la tête

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 80,500

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Balzac, dernière étude pour la tête
signed 'A. Rodin' (at the right side of the back of the head)
bronze with green-brown patina
High: 6½ in. (16.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1897 and cast circa 1897-1900 by Francois Rudier in an edition of at least 60

Edward G. Robinson; sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1973, lot 1.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1993, lot 11.

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comit Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jrme Le Blay under the archive number 2013-4225B.