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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 2 | $****** - ****** | PENSEUR, PETIT MODÈLE |
sculpture
37.8 cm (14.88 in)
Bronze
Inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark ALEXIS RUDIER FONDEUR. PARIS.; stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph King, Cleveland (likely acquired from the Musée Rodin, Paris between 1916-19)
Thence by descent
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, nos. 167-169, illustrations of another cast pp. 73-74
Georges 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 n.p.
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 and 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, figs. 50 & 60, 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, illustration of other casts pp. 584-94
Inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark ALEXIS RUDIER FONDEUR. PARIS.; stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)
Bronze
Height: 14 7/8 in.
37.8 cm
Conceived circa 1880-81; this reduction was conceived in 1903 and this work was cast between 1916-19.
