Live Auction 13487Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 273 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Centauresse dit le sphinx

Closed1 March 2017

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GBP 137,000

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Centauresse dit le sphinx
inscribed 'le sphinx' (upper left)
gouache and wash, pen and ink and graphite on two overlapping sheets of paper
the top sheet: 5 7/8 x 3 3/4 in. (14.9 x 9.5 cm.)
the bottom sheet: 7 5/8 x 5 in. (19.4 x 12.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1880

Private collection, Paris.
Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd, London, by whom acquired from the above in 2002.
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2003.

Specialist note

Christina Buley-Uribe will include this drawing in her forthcoming Auguste Rodin Catalogue raisonné des dessins et peintures under no. 170201.