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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 533 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Minotaure, version aux cornes courtes

Closed28 February 2018

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GBP 106,250

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Minotaure, version aux cornes courtes
signed and inscribed 'A Ben(jamin) Constant Rodin' (on the lower right side)
painted plaster
Height: 13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1885, this version executed circa 1886

Benjamin Constant, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist.
William Welles Bosworth, France, circa 1925-1930, and thence by descent to the present owner in 1974.

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 2011-3421B.