Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 516

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Triton et sirène

Closed28 February 2019

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GBP 27,500

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Triton et sirène
signed and numbered 'A.Rodin No. 4' (on the front); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris.' (on the right side) and inscribed '©by musée Rodin 1969' (on the left side); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.)
Length: 10 in. (25.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1902 and cast by Georges Rudier in an edition of six between 1966 and 1972; this example cast in 1969

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1988, lot 21.
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 2018-5889B.