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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 549 THREE HANDS BY AUGUSTE RODIN FROM A DISTINGUISHED FAMILY COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Main gauche no. 24, petit modèle

Closed28 February 2019

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GBP 21,250

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main gauche no. 24, petit modèle
signed ‘A. Rodin’ and inscribed with foundry mark ‘Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris’ (on the wrist)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 4 3/4 in. (12 cm.)
Conceived between 1880 and 1885; two bronzes cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry between 1949 and 1952; ten examples cast by the Georges Rudier Foundry between 1955 and 1961; this example cast in 1952

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Manuel Goa-Vidal, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in September 1952.
Mrs Wasserman, New York, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2000, lot 150.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of 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 2018-5865B.