Live Auction 5413Impressionist/Modern Art
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 156

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Petite tête de l’Homme au nez cassé, esquisse pour la Porte de l’Enfer – variante avec cou symétrique

Closed27 June 2014

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GBP 15,000

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Petite tête de l’Homme au nez cassé, esquisse pour la Porte de l’Enfer – variante avec cou symétrique
signed 'A. Rodin' (to the left of the neck); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (to the right of the neck)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height (excluding base): 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
Conceived before 1889 and cast between 1920 -1930

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 2013-4281B.