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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 358 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Pas de deux ailé, étude type A - version sans oeuf

Closed28 June 2017

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Pas de deux ailé, étude type A - version sans oeuf
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No.7' (on top of the base); inscribed '© by musée Rodin 1974.' (on the left side of the base) and with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 12 7/8 in. (33 cm.)
Conceived circa 1911 and cast between 1970-1983 in an edition of nine; this example cast in 1974

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Fine Art of Century Foundation, Geneva, by whom acquired from the above in November 1980.
Private collection, Japan, acquired from the above circa late 1980s to early 1990s.

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 2017-5325B.