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AUGUSTE RODIN(1840-1917)Désespoir, agrandissement; Maquette sur base rectangulaire 28.6cm (11 1/4in). high (including the base)
12 – 13 October 2022, 16:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £28,020 inc. premium
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Désespoir, agrandissement; Maquette sur base rectangulaire
signed 'Rodin' and inscribed 'Hommage d'amitié à M. Arnoux' (on the base)
painted plaster
28.6cm (11 1/4in). high (including the base)
Conceived circa 1881-1885, this plaster version executed circa 1890.
signed 'Rodin' and inscribed 'Hommage d'amitié à M. Arnoux' (on the base)
painted plaster
28.6cm (11 1/4in). high (including the base)
Conceived circa 1881-1885, this plaster version executed circa 1890.
Footnotes
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 & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay.
Provenance
Jules-Joseph Arnoux Collection, France (a gift from the artist).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
O. Grautoff, Auguste Rodin, Bielefeld & Leipzig, 1908 (another version illustrated p. 45).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1931 (bronze version illustrated p. 111).
Exh. cat., Exposition Rodin au Japon, Tokyo, 1976 (bronze version illustrated no. 36).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Oxford, 1980, pp. 24-25 (bronze version illustrated pls. 93 & 94).
Exh. cat., Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Mexico City, 1982 (bronze version illustrated p. 41).
Exh. cat., Rodin, Martigny, 1984 (bronze version illustrated no. 40).
C. Lampert, Rodin, Sculpture & Drawings, exh. cat., London, 1986 (another plaster cast illustrated p. 82).
J.V. Miller & G. Marotta, Rodin, The B. Gerald Cantor Collection, exh. cat., New York, 1986 (bronze version illustrated p. 33).
M. Fath & J.A. Schmoll (eds.), Auguste Rodin, Das Höllentor, Zeichnungen und Plastik, exh. cat., Mannheim, 1991 (bronze version illustrated p. 118).
D.G. Rosenfeld, Auguste Rodin's Carved Sculpture, Vol. I, Stanford, 1993, p. 55.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003 (another plaster cast illustrated pp. 258-259, bronze version illustrated pp. 258 and 260 and a limestone version illustrated pp. 261-262).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. I, Paris, 2007, related to S. 1307 & S. 483 (bronze version illustrated fig. 2, p. 309).
