La Femme accroupie, grand modele avec une terrasse plus haute

AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917, French)

La Femme accroupie, grand modele avec une terrasse plus haute

bronze
95.0 x 50.0 x 59.0 cm
inscribed: A. Rodin
inscribed with the foundry mark: Mus\xE9e Rodin 2010, Fonderie de Coubertin France
numbered: IV/ IV

edition: 4/4
conceived in 1881-82, cast in 2010

Provenance:
Musee Rodin, Paris
Australian Collectibles Trading Pty Ltd , Melbourne
Menzies, Melbourne, 14 September 2011, lot 42
Property of an investment partnership, Melbourne

Reference:
Grappe, G., Musee Rodin Catalogue, Musee Rodin, Paris, 1927, no.54, p.38 (illus., another example)
Charbonneaux, J., Les Sculptures de Rodin, F. Ilazan, Paris, 1949, pl.25 (illus., another example)
Auguste Rodin, Leicester, 1951, pl.26 (illus., another example)
Elsen, A., Rodin, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1963, p.59 (illus., another example)
Auguste Rodin, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1963, pl.14 (illus., another example)
Sutton, D., Triumphant Satyr, The World of Auguste Rodin, Hawthorn Books, London, 1966, fig. 20 (illus., another example)
Homage to Rodin, Collection of B. Gerald Cantor, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1968-69, pl.14 (illus., another example)
Tacha Spear, A., Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1967, pl.110S (illus., another example)
Descharnes, R. and Chabrun, J., Auguste Rodin, Chartwell Books, New Jersey, 1967, p.93 (illus., another example)
Jianou, I. and Goldscheider, C., Rodin, Arted, Paris, 1967, pl.22 (illus., another example)
Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings, The Hayward Gallery, London, 1970, cat.16, p.30 (illus., another example)
Steinberg, L., Rodin in Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford University Press, New York, 1972, pl.221,246 (illus., other examples)
Elsen, A., Rodin, London, 1974, pp.58-59 (illus., other examples)
Tancock, J., The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, New York, 1976, no.6-1, pp.136-40 (illus., other examples)
Hazlitt, G., and F., Selected Works from the Andrew Gow Bequest, London, 1978, p.23, pl.63 (illus., another example)
Rodin Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1981 - 82, no.9.63, p.241 (illus., another example)
Elsen, A., The Gates of Hell: by Auguste Rodin, Stanford, 1985, fig. 76, p.84 (illus., another example)
Pinet, H., Rodin sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no.80, p.95 (illus., another example)
Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings, The Hayward Gallery, London, 1986, pp.57-60 (illus., other examples)
Miller, J. and Marotta, G., Rodin, The Gerald B. Cantor Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, no.11, p.29 (illus., another example)
Levkoff, M. Rodin in His Time, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1994, nos.15-16, pp.68-71 (illus., another example)
Masson, R. and Mattiussi, V., Rodin, Flammarion Edition de Musee Rodin, Paris, 2004, p.45 (illus., another example)
Le Normand-Romain, A., The bronzes of Rodin: catalogue of works in the Musee Rodin, vol.1, Paris, 2007, no.S.1156, pp.360-363 (illus., other examples)
WE, The Moderns: Gaudier-Brzeska and the Birth of Modern Sculpture, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 2007, pp.21,103 (illus., another example)
Benedite, L., Rodin, Editions Albert Levy, London, 1924, pl.20 (illus. another example)
Grunfeld, F.V., Rodin, A Biography, Da Capo Press, New York, 1987, pp.187-188, 270, 455
Butler, R., Rodin: The Shape of Genius, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993, pp.187-188, 192

Estimate: $700000 - 900000

Result Hammer: $1,104,545 including BP