Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 419

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Etude pour la douleur no. 2 dite aussi 'Nu féminin penché'

Closed6 November 2014

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Etude pour la douleur no. 2 dite aussi 'Nu féminin penché'
signed 'RODIN' (on the front); stamped with foundry mark 'MONTAGUTELLI FRES CIRE PERDUE PARIS' (on the back)
bronze with brown and green patina
Length: 12 ¾ in. (32.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1887; this bronze version cast between 1912-1913

Private collection, Palm Beach.
Acquired from the estate of the above 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 2014-4413B.

Only four bronze casts of this subject are known today, two of which were cast by the Montagutelli Foundry between 1912 and 1913 (including the present lot). Two of the four casts are presently housed in public collections, in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos-Aires.