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L'ÉTERNEL PRINTEMPS by Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

L'ÉTERNEL PRINTEMPS, 1884

Marble
Sculpture
Unique artwork
LiveArt Estimate™
$******
Momentum 12M
3.9%
CAGR
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (09 May 2016)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 9, 2016
Sotheby'sNew YorkImpressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale17
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L'ÉTERNEL PRINTEMPS
Artwork Description
Category

sculpture

Dimensions

66.7 cm (26.25 in)

Materials

Marble

Provenance

Hellmuth Baron Lucius von Stoedten, Paris & Berlin (acquired from the artist on November 16, 1903)

Private Collection (by descent from the above)

N. Murphy, Canada (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired circa 1975)

Sale: Koller Auktionen, Zurich, May 20-21, 1977

Private Collection, Geneva (purchased at the above sale)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1981)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

Literature

Paul Clemen, ‘Auguste Rodin. I. Teil’, in Die Kunst für alle, April 1905, no. 13, pp. 289-307, illustrated p. 303

Frederick Lawton, The Life and Works of Auguste Rodin, London, 1906, illustrated opposite p. 111

Georges Danthon, Oeuvres de Rodin, Catalogue, Musée Rodin, 1929, no. 88, illustration of another version p. 50

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 141, no. 56, illustration of another version p. 56

René Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, illustration of another version p. 134

Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustrations of another version pls. 56-57

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, illustration of another version figs. 32, 32a-b, 33 & 34

Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, no. 48, illustration of the clay model p. 171

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, illustration of another version pl. 48

David Finn & Marie Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, illustration of another version p. 227

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 494-497, no. 148, another version illustrated p. 495

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin. Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, pp. 331-337, illustrated p. 336, fig. 6 (photo by Jacques Ernest Bulloz, carbon print, Ph. 975)