Live Auction 3737Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper Including Property from the John C. Whitehead Collection
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 1039 PROPERTY FROM THE JOHN C. WHITEHEAD COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Vénus, petit modèle dit aussi "Aphrodite, petit modèle"

Closed15 May 2015

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Vénus, petit modèle dit aussi "Aphrodite, petit modèle"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No 5' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. .Paris.' (on the back of the base); inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1960' (on the right side of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 19 5/8 in. (49.7 cm.)
Conceived between 1889 and 1900; this bronze version cast in 1960

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco Gallery, London (acquired from the above, February 1961).
Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1982, lot 411.
Acquired at the above sale by Achim Moeller Fine Art on behalf of John C. Whitehead.

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 2015-4600B.