AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917, French)
La Femme accroupie, grand modèle avec une terrasse plus haute
Estimate: $1000000 - 1250000
Sold For:
$750000 hammer
Description
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917, French)
La Femme accroupie, grand modèle avec une terrasse plus haute
bronze
95.0 cm height
inscribed: A. Rodin
inscribed with the foundry mark: Musée Rodin 2010, Fonderie de Coubertin France
numbered: IV/ IV
edition: 4/4
conceived in 1881-82, cast in 2010
Provenance:
Musée Rodin, Paris
Australian Collectibles Trading Pty Ltd
Menzies, Melbourne, 14 September 2011, lot 42
Property of an investment partnership, Melbourne
Reference:
Grappe, G., Musée Rodin Catalogue, Musée 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 Édition de Musée Rodin, Paris, 2004, p.45 (illus., another example)
Le Normand-Romain, A., The bronzes of Rodin: catalogue of works in the Musée 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)
Estimate: $1000000 - 1250000
Result Hammer: $750000
Location
VIEWING MELBOURNE
13 – 16 JUNE, 11am-6pm
Menzies Gallery, 1 Darling Street, SOUTH YARRA VIC
VIEWING SYDNEY
20 – 26 JUNE, 11am-6pm
Menzies Gallery, 12 Todman Avenue, KENSINGTON NSW