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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Including Property from the Collection of Herbert and Adele Klapper | 31A | $****** - ****** | Eve, grand modèle—version sans rocher à la base rectangulaire |
sculpture
172.1 cm (67.75 in)
bronze with brown and green patina
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of base), inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris' (on the back of the base), with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
Georges-Eugène Renand, Paris.
Georges Renand, Paris (by descent from the above by 1968); Estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 November 1987, lot 31.
Harry Krampf, Paris (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 1998, lot 58.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
O. Mirbeau, et al., Auguste Rodin et son œuvre, Paris, 1900, p. 3 (another cast illustrated).
C. Mauclair, Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, London, 1905, p. 14 (another cast illustrated, p. 12).
J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin: L'oeuvre et l'homme, Brussels, 1908, p. 159, no. 1899 (another cast illustrated; marble version illustrated).
R.M. Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Leipzig, 1920, nos. 22 and 23 (another cast illustrated).
L. Bénédite, Rodin: A Series of 60 Photogravure Plates, London, 1924, no. XIV (another cast illustrated).
R. Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, London, 1933, pp. 159-62 ,188, 264, 336, 338, 340, 355, 402, 404 and 416 (another cast illustrated, p. 161, no. 66; another cast illustrated in situ at a 1899 Brussels exhibition, p. 338, no. 139).
J. Cladel, Rodin: Sa vie glorieuse et inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 142-143.
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Monaco, 1944, p. 141, no. 44 (another cast illustrated).
M. Aubert, Rodin: Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 21 (another cast illustrated).
P.L. Grigau, "Rodin's Eve" in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute, 1953-1954, vol. 33, pp. 14-16 (another cast illustrated, p. 15).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 49 (another cast illustrated, p. 51).
A.E. Elsen, Auguste Rodin: Readings on His Life and Work, New Jersey, 1965, p 164.
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, p. 71 (another cast illustrated, no. 23).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 89 (plaster version illustrated, p. 134, no. 17).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, New York, 1967, pp. 98-99 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, Rodin Museum Handbook, Philadelphia, 1969, p. 31, no. 7.
L. Goldscheider, Rodin: Sculpture and Drawing, London, 1970, p. 33, no. 11 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 148-157, no. 8 (another cast illustrated).
J. de Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 17, 27 and 142-147, no. 21 (plaster version illustrated twice).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, New York, 1980, pp. 24, 31 and 165-166, no. 25 and 26 (another cast illustrated).
C. Vincent, "Rodin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A History of the Collection" in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1981, vol. 38, no. 2 (another cast illustrated).
R. Barletta and M. Carra, Le Post-Impressionisme, Paris, 1981, p. 104 (another cast illustrated).
M. Hanotelle, Paris/Bruxelles: Rodin et Meunier, Paris, 1982, pp. 59 and 202 (another cast illustrated, p. 58)
A.E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford, 1985, pp. 74-78 (another cast illustrated, no. 64).
H.H. Arnason, History of Modern Art, New York, 1986, p. 92, no. 123 (marble version illustrated).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée, Paris, 1987, p. 198, no. 85 (marble version illustrated).
A. Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, pp. 82-85, 95, 148, 153, 156, 196, 199, 208, 215, 235, 253, 273, 295, 315 and 346 (another cast illustrated in situ at a 1899 Brussels exhibition, p. 153, no. 37).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculptures of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, 1989, pp. 32, 69 and 148-157, no. 8 (another cast illustrated).
D. Finn and M. Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, p. 46 (detail of another cast illustrated; marble version illustrated on the cover).
R. Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, New Haven, 1993, pp. 159-162, 188, 336 and 338-340 (plaster version illustrated, p. 161, no. 66; another cast illustrated in situ at a 1899 Brussels exhibition, p. 338, no. 139).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris and Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 187-191 and 252, no. 41 (another cast illustrated, p. 187).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris and Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, 2003, p. 4, no. 51 (another cast illustrated; motif illustrated as The Gates of Hell, no. 6).
R. Masson and V. Mattiussi, Rodin, Paris, 2004, pp. 36 and 38 (another cast illustrated, p. 39; detail illustrated, p. 152).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 339-340 (other casts illustrated, pp. 338-340).
C. Lampert, Rodin, London, 2006, p. 57 (another cast illustrated, p. 68, no. 74; marble version illustrated on the cover and p. 69).
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris' (on the back of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 67 ¾ in. (172 cm.)
Conceived in 1881 and cast between 1925-1935
