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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Eve au rocher, petit modèle–modèle aux pieds détaillés
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 29 3/8 in. (74.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1883 and cast circa 1900
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 June 1972, lot 97.
Dominique Jobert, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Galerie J. F. Aittouarès, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.
Robert Bowman Gallery, London, by whom acquired from the above in 1998.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 6 November 2002, lot 7.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2007, lot 21.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
F. Lawton, The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin London, 1906, pp. 75, 108, 126 & 268 (another cast illustrated).
J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin l'oeuvre et l'homme, Brussels, 1908, p. 161 (another cast illustrated; marble version illustrated).
C. Mauclair, Auguste Rodin The Man, His Ideas, His Works, London, 1909, p. 14 (another cast illustrated p. 12).
L. Bénédite, Rodin, Paris, 1924, pp. 26-27 (another cast illustrated pl. XVI).
L. Bénédite, Rodin, Paris, 1926, p. 61 (marble version illustrated pl. 9).
J. Cladel, Auguste Rodin sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 142-143.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, pp. 27-28 (marble version illustrated p. 28).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 141, no. 44 (another cast illustrated).
P.L. Grigau, 'Rodin's Eve', in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute, 1953 - 1954, pp. 14 & 16 (another cast illustrated p. 15).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 49, 151, 192 & 208 (another cast illustrated p. 51).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, p. 279 (another cast illustrated p. 23).
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin Paris, 1967, p. 160.
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 88 (another cast illustrated pl. 19; plaster version illustrated, pl. 17).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 148-157 (another cast illustrated fig. 8).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 17, 27, 143-144 & 146 (plaster version illustrated pp. 142 & 145).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, New York, 1979, no. 22, p. 118 (another cast illustrated).
M. Hanotelle, Paris/Bruxelles, Rodin et Meunier, Paris, 1982, pp. 59 & 202 (another cast illustrated).
H.H. Arnason, History of Modern Art, New York, 1986, no. 123 (marble version illustrated, p. 32).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée, Paris, 1987, no. 85, p.198 (marble version illustrated p. 199).
A. Beausire, Quand Rodin exposait, Dijon, 1988, pp. 82, 95 & 315 (terracotta version illustrated p. 84).
D. Finn & M. Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, pp. 42, 229 & 241 (another cast illustrated p. 46; marble version illustrated pp. 43-45 and on the cover).
A. Le Normand- Romain, Rodin, La porte de l'enfer, Paris, 1999, p. 45 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand- Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, no. S.1299, pp. 343-340 & 345-347, (other versions illustrated pp. 338-347).
Special Notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Post Lot Text
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 2002V202B.