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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 333 PROPERTY OF A LADY

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Main droite No 1, petit modèle

Closed14 November 2017

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USD 51,250

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main droite No 1, petit modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark ' G.Rudier..Fond.Paris.' (on the wrist)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.)
Conceived by 1901; this bronze version cast in 1962

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Edgardo Acosta Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, April 1963).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 7 June 1984, lot 23.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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 2017-5614B.