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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Lot 577 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DONALD E. SIMON

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Esquisse pour La chute d’un ange dite aussi Illusions reçues par la Terre, 1er état

Closed8 October 2020

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Esquisse pour La chute d’un ange dite aussi Illusions reçues par la Terre, 1er état
signed and numbered ‘A. Rodin No 7/8’ (on the top of the rock); inscribed, dated and stamped with the Coubertin foundry mark ‘© By Musée Rodin 1984’ (on the back)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 15 in. (38.1 cm.)
Width: 27 3/8 in. (69.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1895; this bronze version cast in 1984

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, December 1985.

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 2020-6213B.