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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 254 | $****** - ****** | Main crispée droite, agrandissement dite aussi grand modèle |
sculpture
46.4 cm (18.25 in)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
signed, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin © .by musée Rodin 1963.’ (on the right side of the base), inscribed with, foundry mark '.Georges Rudier..Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the base), with raised signature ‘A. Rodin’ (on the underside)
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, January 1965.
C. Mauclair, L'oeuvre de Rodin, Paris, 1900, pp. 316-320 (another version illustrated; titled Main d'expression).
F.G. Watkins, Rodin Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1929, p. 13, no. 29.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 80 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 93 (titled Mighty Hand).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 616-617, no. 119 (another cast illustrated, p. 618).
Musée Rodin, ed., Rodin, les mains, les chirurgiens, Paris, 1983, p. 62, no. 36 (another cast illustrated, pp. 63 and 86-87).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, p. 499 (another cast illustrated, p. 500, fig. 2).
signed, dated and inscribed 'A. Rodin © .by musée Rodin 1963.’ (on the right side of the base); inscribed with
foundry mark '.Georges Rudier..Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the base); with raised signature ‘A. Rodin’ (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 18 ¼ in. (46.2 cm.)
Conceived before 1898; this bronze version cast in 1963
