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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SELIM AND MARY ZILKHA
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Vénus, petit modèle dit aussi "Aphrodite, petit modèle"
Details
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Vénus, petit modèle dit aussi "Aphrodite, petit modèle"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N°.4' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier..Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base); dated and inscribed '© by Musée Rodin 1959.' (on the side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 19 ¾ in. (50 cm.)
Conceived in 1889-1900 and cast in 1959
Vénus, petit modèle dit aussi "Aphrodite, petit modèle"
signed and numbered 'A. Rodin N°.4' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier..Fondeur. Paris.' (on the back of the base); dated and inscribed '© by Musée Rodin 1959.' (on the side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 19 ¾ in. (50 cm.)
Conceived in 1889-1900 and cast in 1959
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Galerie Gérald Cramer, Geneva (acquired from the above, July 1960).
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (by July 1963).
M.A.D. Peters, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 18 May 1983, lot 322.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
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 et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2023-7058B.
Galerie Gérald Cramer, Geneva (acquired from the above, July 1960).
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (by July 1963).
M.A.D. Peters, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 18 May 1983, lot 322.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
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 et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2023-7058B.
Literature
C.F. Stuckey, intro., The John C. Whitehead Collection: A Collection in Progress, Late XIX and Early XX Century French Masters, New York, 1987, p. 90 (another cast illustrated, p. 91).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 134, no. S. 1158 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 134, no. S. 1158 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, Rodin, A Selection from the Exhibition "Rodin Inconnu" at the Musée du Louvre, July-August 1963, p. 9, no. 33 (illustrated).
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