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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 364

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

L’un des Bourgeois de Calais, Tête de Pierre de Wiessant, étude type B, variante avec piédouche

Fermé16 May 2017

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L’un des Bourgeois de Calais, Tête de Pierre de Wiessant, étude type B, variante avec piédouche
signed, inscribed with foundry mark, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris © by Musée Rodin 1960.' (on the back); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 10 7/8 in. (27.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885; this bronze version cast in 1960

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Mrs. Harry Jackson, New York (acquired from the above, October 1961).
Anthony Quinn, New York; Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 8 May 2002, lot 325.
Private collection, Miami (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2005.

Note du spécialiste

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 2002-73B.