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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 7 | $****** - ****** | CARIATIDE TOMBÉE PORTANT SA PIERRE, AGRANDISSEMENT D'UN TIERS |
sculpture
63.4 cm (24.96 in)
French limestone
Inscribed A. Rodin
Berthe Dumon, Tournai, Belgium (acquired from the artist between January and July 1894)
Mme Baron Armand van Zuylen van Nyevelt (née Cécile Dumon), Belgium (by descent from the above in 1946)
Robert Desprechins de Gaesebeke (Bernard Manier), St. Denis-Westrem, Belgium (acquired from the above through a Ghent gallery in 1950)
Charles Feingarten (Feingarten Gallery), Los Angeles (acquired from the above in February-March 1969)
Walter R. Beardsley, Elkhart, Indiana (acquired from the above in 1969)
A gift from the above in 1978
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Rodin Rediscovered, 1981-82, no. 153, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Fallen Caryatid)
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, listed p. 88
Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, illustrations of other examples pp. 58-59
Athena Tacha Spear, A Supplement to Rodin Sculpture in The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1974, illustrated pl. 107S
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, illustrated p. 51
Jacques de Caso & Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, illustrations of the bronze version pp. 155 & 157
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin’s Studio. A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, illustrations of the bronze version pls. 34-35
Daniel Rosenfeld, Auguste Rodin's Carved Sculpture, vol. I, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 1993, p. 359, illustrated p. 695
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin. The Gates of Hell, Paris, 2002, p. 72
Albert E. Elsen & Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin’s Art. The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, New York, 2003, illustrations of the bronze versions pp. 229-33
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin. Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, listed p. 246, illustrations of other examples pp. 245-49
Inscribed A. Rodin
French limestone
Height: 25 in.
63.4 cm
Conceived circa 1881-82 and carved in 1893-94.
