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THE COLLECTION OF SIR WARWICK & LADY FAIRFAX AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) L'un des Bourgeois de Calais: Tête colossale de Pierre de Wissant signed and numbered 'A. Rodin n○ 6' (on the left side of the base), inscribed and dated '© by musee Rodin 1973' (on the right side of the base) and further inscribed with the foundry mark 'Susse fondeur Paris' (to the verso) bronze with brown-black patina 81.8cm (32 3/16in). high Conceived between 1885 - 1886, this enlargement circa 1908. This bronze version cast in October 1973 by the Susse Foundry in an edition of 5, numbered 3 to 7. Fußnoten 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 & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay. Provenance Musée Rodin, Paris. David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney (acquired from the above in May - July 1974). Sir Warwick & Lady Fairfax Collection, Sydney (acquired from the above in July 1974). Thence by descent to the present owners. Literature A. E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963 (another cast illustrated p. 75). B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967 (smaller version illustrated p. 80). I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967 (another cast illustrated pl. 47). L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970 (another version illustrated pl. 45). A. Bowness, Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., London, 1970 (another cast illustrated p. 55). J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976 (another version illustrated p. 381). J. de Caso & P. B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977 (plaster version illustrated p. 212). M. J. McNamara & A. E. Elsen, Rodin's Burghers of Calais, Rodin's Sculptural Studies for the Monument to the Burghers of Calais from the Collection of the Cantor, Fitzgerald Group, 1977 (another cast illustrated p. 39 and other versions illustrated p. 38). C. Judrin, M. Laurent & D. Viéville, Auguste Rodin Le monument des Bourgeois de Calais (1884 - 1895) dans les collections du musée Rodin et du musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, exh. cat., Paris, 1977 (plaster version & another cast illustrated p. 235 and other versions illustrated pp. 175 - 178 & 229). C. Keisch (ed.), Rodin, Plastik, Zeichnungen, Graphik, exh. cat., Berlin, 1979 (plaster version illustrated p. 139). G. Marotta (ed.), Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917, New York, 1981 (another cast illustrated on the front cover & p. 26). L. Ambrosini & M. Facos, The Cantor Gift to The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1987 (another cast illustrated p. 110). M. L. Levkoff, Rodin in his Time, The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1994 (another cast illustrated p. 100). A. Balis & R. Hoozee et al. (eds.), 200 Jaar Verzamelen, Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent & Amsterdam, 2000 (plaster version & another cast illustrated pp. 144 - 145). A. Le Normand-Romain & A. Haudiquet, Rodin, Les Bourgeois de Calais, Paris, 2001 (another cast illustrated pp. 52 - 53). A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin e l'Italia, exh. cat., Rome, 2001 (another cast illustrated p. 76). I. Ross & A. Snow (eds.) in association with The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001 (another cast illustrated p. 61). A. E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003 (another cast illustrated pp. 141 - 142). A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. I, Paris, 2007, S. 393 (another cast illustrated p. 240 and other versions illustrated pp. 98 & 237 - 239).