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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Lot 621 PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED FAMILY COLLECTION, NEW YORK

AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Étude pour un portrait féminin dit aussi “Etude de buste pour le portrait de la Comtesse de Noailles”

Closed13 May 2023

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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Étude pour un portrait féminin dit aussi “Etude de buste pour le portrait de la Comtesse de Noailles”
signed ‘A. Rodin’ (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark ‘.Alexis.RUDIER. .Fondeur.PARIS.’ (on the back)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 5 7/8 in. (14.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1906; this bronze version cast in 1926

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Jules E. Mastbaum, Philadelphia (acquired from the above, November 1925).
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, Madison, New Jersey; Estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 22 October 1975, lot 100.
(probably) Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.

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 2010-3311B.