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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 1384

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Buste de jeune fille aux fleurs dans les cheveux

Closed13 November 2015

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Buste de jeune fille aux fleurs dans les cheveux
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin no10' (on the left side); dated and inscribed '1980 © by Musée Rodin' and stamped with the Coubertin foundry mark (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 19 in. (48.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1868; this bronze version cast in 1980

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Bruton Gallery, Somerset and Valentien Gallery, Vienna (acquired from the above, January 1983).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1985.

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 2015-4742B.