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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 31 | $****** - ****** | Le Penseur, petit modèle |
sculpture
37.8 cm (14.88 in)
bronze with green and brown patina
signed and stamped with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin Alexis RUDIER. Fondeur. PARIS.' (on the base), with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the base)
Private collection, Japan, by whom acquired before 1970, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 2003, lot 106.
Acquired at the above sale; sold, Christie's, New York, 4 November 2004, lot 219.
Halcyon Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 143, p. 61 (the plaster illustrated).
H. Martinie, Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, Paris, 1949, pl. 19 (the plaster illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 52-55 & 57.
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 88 (another cast referenced).
J. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 111-112, 114 & 116.
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 131 & 133-134. A.E. Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, 1981, pp. 66-67.
A.E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford, 1985, pp. 71 & 73-74.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Thinker and the Dilemmas of Modern Public Sculpture, New Haven & London, 1985, pp. 4, 7-8, 11-12, 17 & 48.
C. Lampert, Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1986, p. 24 (another version illustrated p. 25).
K. Varnedoe, Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, no. 73, pp. 96 & 175 (another cast illustrated pl. 73, p. 97).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, p. 587.
signed and stamped with the foundry mark 'A. Rodin Alexis RUDIER. Fondeur. PARIS.' (on the base); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the base)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 14 7/8 in. (37.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1881-1882; this example cast by Alexis Rudier between 1920-1930
