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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) l'un des bourgeois de calais: andrieu d'andres stamped with signature "...

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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917) l'un des bourgeois de calais: andrieu d'andres stamped with signature ...
AUGUSTE RODIN
(1840-1917)
l'un des bourgeois de calais: andrieu d'andres
stamped with signature "A. Rodin" (on the front of base); stamped with foundry mark "alexis Rudier Fondeur, Paris" (on the back of base); with raised signature
"A. Rodin" (on the inside)
height: 16 7/8 in (43 cm)
conceived in 1885; this bronze version cast before 1952
Estimate: $50,000-70,000 <p>Provenance
Private Collection, Germany (acquired in 1954)
Mr. and Mrs. François Schwarz, New York (sale: Christie's New York, November 7, 2001, lot 104)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner <p>Literature
Georges Grappe, Catalogue de Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 194 (plaster cast illustrated, p. 87)
Bernard Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 69-102, no. 29 (large bronze version illustrated)
Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 106-117 (plaster cast illustrated, p. 111)
Cécile Goldscheider and Ionel Jianou, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 99, pl. 45 (another cast illustrated)
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 376-402 (other bronze versions illustrated)
Musée Rodin, ed., Le Monument des Bourgeois de Calais, exh. cat., Paris, 1977, p. 225, no. 90 (another cast illustrated)
Albert Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, New York, 1980, pp. 172-173 (clay versions illustrated, pls. 59 and 60)
Claude Monet-Auguste Rodin, centenaire de l'exposition de 1889, exh. cat., Musée Rodin, 1990, no. 22 (another version illustrated)
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