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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 15, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 23 | $****** - ****** | PENSEUR, PETIT MODÈLE |
sculpture
37.4 cm (14.72 in)
bronze
Inscribed A Rodin, inscribed with the foundry mark Alexis. Rudier Fondeur. Paris and stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)
Mr. Fred R. Kay, Montreal & Glasgow
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above circa 1955 and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., November 20, 1968, lot 13)
Charles H. Oestreich, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent
George Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, nos. 167-69, illustrations of another cast pp. 73-74 ↵George Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, illustration of the plaster p. 40↵Henri Martinie, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1949, no. 19, illustration of another cast↵Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, illustrations of other casts pp. 25, 52 & 53↵Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, edition catalogued p. 88 & illustration of another cast pl. 11↵John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, edition catalogued & illustrations of other casts pp. 111-20↵Albert E. Elsen, ed., Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D.C., 1981, illustration of the clay model p. 67↵Albert E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford, 1985, illustrations of the clay model pp. 56 & 71↵Hélène Pinet, Rodin Sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, illustrations of other casts pp. 80-83↵Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, illustrations of other casts pp. 584-94
Inscribed A Rodin, inscribed with the foundry mark Alexis. Rudier Fondeur. Paris and stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)↵Bronze↵Height: 14 3/4 in.↵37.4 cm↵Conceived circa 1880-81, this model conceived in 1903 and cast between 1930 and 1940.
