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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Figure de l’homme qui marche, taille originale dite aussi moyen modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris.' (on the side of the base); inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1958' (on the side of the base); with raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 33 1/8 in. (84.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1899-1900; this bronze version cast in July 1958
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, July 1960.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2008-2183B.
Literature
R.M. Rilke, Auguste Rodin Berlin, 1907, p. 84.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, vol. I, p. 29, no. 15 (another cast illustrated).
J. Cladel, Rodin: Sa vie glorieuse et inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 132-133 and 275.
A. Leslie, Rodin: Immortal Peasant, New York, 1937, p. 304.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1938, pp. 16-17 (another cast illustrated).
V. Frisch and J.T. Shipley, Rodin: A Biography, New York, 1939, pp. 58, 114, 127, 199, 311, 372 and 423-423 (another cast illustrated, fig. 32).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, pp. 16-17 (another cast illustrated).
J. Cladel, Rodin, Paris, 1948, pp. xvi and xix.
E. Herriot, Rodin, Zurich, 1949, pp. 78-79 (larger cast illustrated).
M. Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, pp. 14-15 (another cast illustrated).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1962, p. 56 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 27, 29, 31-33 and 181 (another cast illustrated, p. 28; larger cast illustrated, p. 30).
A. Bowness, Modern Sculpture, London, 1965, p. 12 (another cast illustrated, p. 15).
D. Sutton, Triumphant Satyr: The World of Auguste Rodin London, 1966, pp. 41, 69 and 94.
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 57-59 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen and H. Moore "Rodin's Walking Man as Seen by Henry Moore " Studio International, no. 174, July-August 1967, pp. 26-31.
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin Paris, 1967, p. 213 (larger cast illustrated; plaster version illustrated, p. 55).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 87 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 10).
A.E. Elsen, "The Sculpture of Matisse, Part I," Artforum, September 1968, vol. 7, pp. 22-26 (another cast illustrated).
W. Tucker, The Language of Sculpture, London, 1974, pp. 144-145 (another cast illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 365 and 369, no. 65-1 (another cast illustrated, p. 365).
Y. Taillandier, Rodin, New York, 1978, p. 6 (another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, p. 187, nos. 132-134 (larger casts illustrated in situ, pls. 132-134).
A.E. Elsen, Purposes of Art, New York, 1981, p. 345 (another cast illustrated).
H. Pinet, Rodin: Sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, p. 48, no. 36 (larger cast illustrated).
M. Laurent, Rodin, Paris, 1988, p. 33 (another cast illustrated).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, 1840-1886, Paris, 1989, vol. I, p. 130, no. 103a (another cast illustrated, p. 131).
D. Jarrassé, Rodin, la passion du mouvement, Paris, 1993, pp. 48-49 (other versions illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, New York, 2003, pp. 546-555, no. 174 (other versions illustrated, pp. 546 and 548-550).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 421-422 (another cast illustrated).