Auguste Rodin - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 8, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Musée Rodin, Paris
    Collection of Mme Darthea Speyer, Paris (acquired in July 1970)
    Thence by descent to the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Munich, Städtische Galerie, Auguste Rodin, 10 May - 13 August 1961, no. 37 (plaster cast exhibited)
    Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Auguste Rodin, 12 May - 31 July, no. 71 (another example exhibited)
    New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art; Bombay, National Gallery of Modern Art; Calcutta, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Rodin Sculptures and Drawings, 27 November 1982 - 1 June 1983, no. 75, p. 33 (another cast exhibited)
    Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Rodin, 12 May - 7 October 1984, no. 69, p. 115 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Bern, Kunstmuseum, Camille Claudel - Auguste Rodin. Künsterpaare-Künsterlfreunde. Dialogues d'artistes, résonances, 6 March - 9 July 1985, no. 43, n.p., pl. 104 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Seoul, National Museum of Modern Art, Auguste Rodin, 25 July - 29 August, no. 34 (another example exhibited)
    Nagoya, Municipal Museum; Himeji, Municipal Art Museum; Kure, Museum of Art; Tokyo, Harajuku Museum; Yagamata Museum of Art; Kagoshima, Municipal Art Museum; Shimonoseki, Municipal Art Museum; Niigata, Municipal Art Museum; Yokohama, Sogo Art Museum, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), 4 October 1985 - 27 August 1986, no. 64
    Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin. Sculptures et aquarelles, 20 June - 6 September 1987, no. 12, p. 25 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Miyagi, Museum of Art; Sapporo, Museum of Contemporary Art; Ibaragi, Museum of Modern Art, [Rodin: 150th Anniversary of his Birth], 25 August - 9 December 1990, no. S-59 (another example exhibited)
    Zwolle, Dordrecht Museum, De Torso in Nederland, 28 April - 30 June 1991, no. 6 (another example exhibited)
    Paris, Musée Rodin, Rodin sculpteur. Oeuvres méconnues, 24 November 1992 - 11 April 1993, no. 133, p. 156 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    The Hague, Het Palais; Laren, Singer Museum, Rodin, 14 October 1995 - 16 January 1996, no. 96
    Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Rodin et la Belgique, 7 September - 14 December 1997, no. XI.5, p. 241 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Singapore, Art Museum, The Origins of Modern Art in France 1880-1939, 15 May - 14 September 1998, no. 11, pp. 76-79, (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 76-77, 79)
    Rome, Académie de France, Rodin et l'Italie, 4 April - 9 July 2001, no. 137 (another example exhibited)
    Athens, National Pinakothiki, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Six Leading Sculptors and the Human Figure: Rodin, Bourdelle, Maillol, Brancusi, Giacometti, Moore, 9 June - 4 October 2004, no. I. 15, pp. 98-99, 136 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 99, 136)

  • Literature

    John L. Tancock, The sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 74, 288, 291
    Monique Laurent, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1988, pp. 110-111 (another example illustrated)
    Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in The Musée Rodin, Vol. 2, Paris, 2007, no. S. 970, p. 452 (another example illustrated)

176

Iris, messagère des dieux, étude avec tête

incised with the artist's signature and number 'A. Rodin No. 3' on the inside of the proper right foot; incised with the inscription and cast date 'Susse Fondeur; Paris, © BY MUSEE RODIN' on the base of the proper left foot
bronze
47.9 x 39.4 x 18.4 cm (18 7/8 x 15 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
Conceived circa 1890-1891 and cast in May 1970, this work is number 3 from an edition of 13.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive no. 2016-4884B.

Estimate
£80,000 - 120,000 

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 8 March 2024