AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Lot 229

AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

L'un des Bourgeois de Calais, Jean d'Aire vêtu, réduction

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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
L'un des Bourgeois de Calais, Jean d'Aire vêtu, réduction
signed 'A. Rodin' (at the bottom of his cape) and stamped with the foundry mark 'Alexis.Rudier Fondeur.PARIS' (on the side of the base); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with black-brown patina
height: 18 5⁄8 in. (47.2 cm.)
Conceived between 1887 and 1895, and cast in bronze by Alexis Rudier, Paris, in 1945

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Cziwiklitzer, Cologne, by whom acquired in November 1955.
Private collection, Cologne, and thence by descent.
Acquired from the above by 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 2022-6738B.