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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 550THREE HANDS BY AUGUSTE RODIN FROM A DISTINGUISHED FAMILY COLLECTION

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Main droite n. 27, petit modèle

Fermé28 February 2019

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GBP 32,500

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Main droite n. 27, petit modèle
signed ‘A. Rodin' and inscribed with foundry mark 'G. Rudier Fond. Paris’ (on the wrist)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1890; one bronze cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry in 1949; and eleven examples cast by the Georges Rudier Foundry between 1960 and 1965; this example cast in 1962

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Edgardo Acosta Gallery, California, by whom acquired from the above in 1963.
Private collection, U.S.A.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 February 1999, lot 97 (part lot).
Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 9 May 2000, lot 151.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

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 2000-394B.