Etude pour 'La tête de pleureuse de la Porte de l'Enfer'

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Etude pour 'La tête de pleureuse de la Porte de l'Enfer'
terracotta
Height: 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1880-1885; unique

Provenance

Jean Limet, Paris (probably acquired from the artist between 1902-1917.)
By descent from the above to the previous owner.

Lot Essay

This work is one of the preparatory studies for La tête de pleureuse (Tancock, no. 14), which was conceived as the central figure of the lower bas-relief of La Porte de l'Enfer. It is an unfinished example of the artist's work in progress.

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