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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE GUSTAV DELBANCO AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) Etude de Damnée (Etude no. 1431) signed and numbered 'A. Rodin No. 5' (on the sole of the left foot), inscribed with the foundry mark 'Georges Rudier.Fondeur.Paris.' and further inscribed and dated '© by musée Rodin 1961' (on the back of the right leg) bronze with brown patina with green accents 16.7cm (6 9/16in). high; 23cm (9 1/16in). width Conceived circa 1885, this bronze version cast in March 1961 by the Georges Rudier foundry in an edition of 12 plus one cast for the Musée Rodin collection. Fußnoten 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 & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay. Provenance Musée Rodin, Paris. Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (acquired from the above in May 1962). Gustav Delbanco Collection, London. Private collection, UK (by descent from the above). Exhibited London, Browse & Darby, Edgar Degas 1834 - 1917, Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917, Sculpture & Works on Paper, 14 February - 16 March 2018, no. 16. Literature Exh. cat., Auguste Rodin Paris, 1963 (another cast illustrated no. 16). J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976 (another cast illustrated p. 391). C. Judrin, M. Laurent & D. Viéville, Auguste Rodin Le monument des Bourgeois de Calais (1884 - 1895) dans les collections du musée Rodin et du musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, exh. cat., Paris, 1977 (another cast illustrated p. 228). Exh. cat., Rodin et la Porte de l'Enfer, Tokyo, 1989 (another cast illustrated p. 118). M. Fath & J. A. Schmoll-Eisenwerth (eds.), Auguste Rodin Das Höllentor, Zeichnungen und Plastik, exh. cat., Munich, 1991 (another cast illustrated p. 130). A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, S. 650, Vol. I, Paris, 2007 (another cast illustrated p. 286).