Live Auction 19520Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Lot 249 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Esquisse pour les Bénédictions, Modèle pour le Sommet de la 'Tour du Travail'

Closed24 March 2021

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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Esquisse pour les Bénédictions, Modèle pour le Sommet de la 'Tour du Travail'
signed, dated and stamped with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin © by Musée Rodin 1955 Alexis.Rudier Fondeur.Paris' (around the lower edge of the base)
bronze with brown-green patina
Height: 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.)
Conceived before 1894; this example cast by Alexis Rudier for the Musée Rodin in January 1945

World House Galleries [Herbert Mayer], New York, by whom acquired directly from the Musée Rodin in 1955.
Wuilliez collection, Switzerland.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1996, lot 357.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.