Auguste Rodin

Femmes damnées, version avec pied droit de la femme supérieure touchant le genou gauche de la femme couchée

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March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

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Three Bronzes from an Important Private Collection

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Femmes damnées, version avec pied droit de la femme supérieure touchant le genou gauche de la femme couchée

inscribed a Mucha, Rodin and stamped with the foundry mark Alexis. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.

bronze

length: 28.6cm., 11¼in.

Conceived before 1890 and cast in bronze between 1925 and 1935.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin in collaboration with Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2015-4815B.

Musée Rodin, Paris
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1979)
Sale: Bonhams, London, 4th February 2016, lot 44
Univers du Bronze, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 36 (plaster illustrated p. 259)
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, Vol. I, Paris, 2007, nos. S.31 & S.489 (other casts illustrated p. 365)