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Lot 9
AUGUSTE RODIN(1840-1917)Étude pour Polyphème 43.5 cm (17 1/8 in). high
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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Étude pour Polyphème
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin no. 6/8' (on the right of the pedestal), inscribed '© By Musee Rodin 1987' and inscribed with the foundry mark 'E. Godard Fondr' (on the rim of the pedestal)
bronze with black patina
43.5 cm (17 1/8 in). high
Conceived circa 1906, this bronze version cast by the Émile Godard Foundry for the Musée Rodin in 1987 in an edition of 12 numbered 0/8-8/8 and II/IV-IV/IV.
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin no. 6/8' (on the right of the pedestal), inscribed '© By Musee Rodin 1987' and inscribed with the foundry mark 'E. Godard Fondr' (on the rim of the pedestal)
bronze with black patina
43.5 cm (17 1/8 in). high
Conceived circa 1906, this bronze version cast by the Émile Godard Foundry for the Musée Rodin in 1987 in an edition of 12 numbered 0/8-8/8 and II/IV-IV/IV.
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
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Coskun Fine Art, London (acquired from the above in February 2000).
Private collection, London.
Anon. sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 24 June 2016, lot 155.
Private collection, UK (acquired at the above sale).
Literature
Exh. cat., Exposition Rodin au Japon, Tokyo, 1976 (another cast illustrated no. 32).
A. Beausire (ed.), Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, pp. 32, 99, 135, 152, 182 & 233 (other casts referenced).
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 cast illustrated pp. 275–276).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 517 (another cast illustrated pp. 600-601).
