Lot 203
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Property from the Collection of Lew and Edie Wasserman
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Trois faunesses

Price realised USD 158,500
Estimate
USD 100,000 – USD 150,000
Closed: 2 Nov 2011
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Trois faunesses

Price realised USD 158,500
Closed: 2 Nov 2011
Price realised USD 158,500
Closed: 2 Nov 2011
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Trois faunesses
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the top of the arms); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.' (on the front of the arms); inscribed and dated 'C by musée Rodin 1959' (on the back of the arms)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1896; this bronze version cast in 1959
Provenance
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Lew and Edie Wasserman, Los Angeles, circa 1960.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 34, no. 77 (plaster version illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 244 (plaster version illustrated).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin, London, 1970 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 23).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 358-360, no. S. 6724 (another cast illustrated, p. 359).

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