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THE COLLECTION OF SIR WARWICK & LADY FAIRFAX AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) L'un des Bourgeois de Calais: Jean de Fiennes, vêtu, réduction signed 'A. Rodin' (on the base), inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1962' (on the right side of the base), inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (to the verso) and stamped with the signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside of the base) bronze with brown-green patina 46cm (18 1/8in). high Conceived between 1887 and 1895, this reduction in 1889. This bronze version cast in August 1962 by the Georges Rudier Foundry in an edition of possibly 50. 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. Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above in November 1963). David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney (acquired from the above in November 1963). Sir Warwick & Lady Fairfax Collection, Sydney (acquired from the above by 1969). Thence by descent to the present owners. Exhibited Sydney, David Jones' Art Gallery, An Exhibition of Fifty Bronzes by Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917, 12 September - 25 October 1969, no. 18. Sydney, David Jones' Art Gallery, Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917, The Burghers of Calais, 5 - 30 March 1974, no. 16. Literature J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadephia, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 397 (another cast illustrated p. 390). 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 (another cast illustrated p. 224). J. de Caso & P. B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977 (another cast illustrated p. 221). 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. 40). M. L. Levkoff, Rodin in his Time, The Cantor Gifts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1994 (monumental version illustrated p. 101). I. Ross & A. Snow (eds.) in association with The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001 (monumental version illustrated p. 57). 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 (monumental version illustrated pp. 66, 132 - 133). S. Wolohojian, A Private Passion, 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., New York, 2003 (another cast illustrated p. 297). A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S. 419 (another cast illustrated p. 216 & 227).