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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Éternelle idole, grand modèle
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right front of the base) and inscribed with the foundry mark 'ALEXIS RUDIER. Fondeur Paris.' (on the right side of the base); signed 'A.Rodin' (a raised signature in the interior) and inscribed '42A' (in the interior)
bronze with rich dark brown patina and green highlights
height: 28 1/2 in. (72.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1889, this example cast by Alexis Rudier in 1927
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Eugène Rudier, Le Vésinet, by whom acquired from the above circa 1935.
Private collection, Florence.
Private collection, USA, by whom acquired circa 1960.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 4 May 2005, lot 138.
Bowman Sculpture, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 24 April 2017.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'œuvre 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 2005V593B.
Literature
L. Maillard, Études sur quelques artistes originaux, Auguste Rodin statuaire, Paris, 1899, pp. 129, 132-133, 147, 158 (marble version illustrated pp. 129 & 133).
F. Lawton, François-Auguste Rodin London, 1907, pp. 146, 154, 174, 180 (marble version illustrated).
C. Mauclair, Auguste Rodin The Man, His Ideas, His Works, London, 1909, pp. 40-41, 85.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 204, p. 77 (another cast illustrated).
R.M. Rilke, Auguste Rodin Paris, 1928, pp. 58-61.
M. Hoffman, Sculpture Inside and Out, London, 1939, no. 94, p. 124 (another cast illustrated).
H. Martine, Auguste Rodin Paris, 1949, no. 37 (another version illustrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 103 (marble version illustrated pl. 58).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin Philadelphia, 1976, p. 47 (another cast illustrated pl. 9).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco, 1977, no. 5, pp. 63-66 (other versions illustrated pp. 64 & 65).
A. Beausire (ed.), Quand Rodin exposait, Paris, 1988, no. 95, pp. 35, 127-128, 189, 279, 352, 367.
M.L. Levkoff, Rodin in his Time, The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1994, no. 39, pp. 124, 208, 224 (another cast illustrated pp. 124-125).
M. Kausch, "Das Menschenbild Auguste Rodins" in exh. cat., Auguste Rodin Eros und Leidenschaft, Palais Harrach, Vienna, 1996, no. 22, pp. 53-55 (another cast illustrated p. 52).
I. Ross & A. Snow (eds.), Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, p. 20 (another cast illustrated no. 10).
D. Lobstein, "Antony Roux et Alfred Baillehache-Lamotte, collectionneurs de Rodin", in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, Paris, 2002, p. 328.
A. Le Normand-Romain, Camille Claudel & Rodin, Le temps remettra tout en place, Paris, 2003, no. 42, pp. 36-38 (another cast illustrated p. 36).
A. Le Normand-Romain, in exh. cat., A Private Passion, 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, New York, 2003, no. 119, pp. 291-293 (marble version illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 328-330 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Rodin, Le livre du centenaire, Grand Palais, 2017, p. 95 (another version illustrated fig. 12).
Special Notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.