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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 421

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Pas de deux, étude type G

Closed12 November 2018

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Pas de deux, étude type G
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin Nº2' (on the right dancer's lifted foot); inscribed with foundry mark, dated and inscribed '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris. © by musée Rodin 1966.' (on the back foot)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 13 ½ in. (34.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1911; this bronze version cast in 1966

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above, June 1967).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1988, lot 315.
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 November 1993, lot 14.
Bruton Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale).

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 2008-1965B.