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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)Buste de Mignon – version à l'arrière plein signed 'A Rodin' (on the back of the left shoulder), inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis. Rudier Fondeur. Paris' (on the back of the neck) and stamped with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the base) bronze with green and brown patina 16 1/4 in (41.2 cm) (height) Conceived in 1870. This bronze version cast in 1944 by the Alexis Rudier Foundry FootnotesThis 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 & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay. Provenance Musée Rodin, Paris. Essa, France (acquired from the above in November 1944). Claude Cueto Collection, Paris (acquired circa 1965-1966). Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in November 1966). Henry Mancini Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above after 1976). Thence by descent to the present owners. Literature J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin Philadelphia, 1976, p. 486 (another cast illustrated p. 481). J. de Caso & P. B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture. A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco & Tokyo, 1977, nos. 53 & 54 (other casts illustrated pp. 262–267). A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S.503 (another cast illustrated p. 518).