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Auguste Rodin
(French, 1840-1917)
Buste de Suzon (Taille Originale dite aussi Taille N°5)
Estimate: $6,000-$10,000
Live Auction
What Do You See? The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Part III
Location
Philadelphia
Size
height: 12 in. (30.5cm)
Description
Auguste Rodin
(French, 1840-1917)
Buste de Suzon (Taille Originale dite aussi Taille N°5)
bronze with golden brown patina
signed A. Rodin (at the rear, to the left); also with Cie des Bronzes/a /Bruxelles foundry stamp (at the rear, along the rim, to the right)
height: 12 in. (30.5cm)
The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
Condition
height: 12 in. (30.5cm)width: 6 7/8 in. (17cm) depth: 6 3/4 in. (17.5cm)
Signature
signed A. Rodin (at the rear, to the left); also with Cie des Bronzes/a /Bruxelles foundry stamp (at the rear, along the rim, to the right)
Provenance
Conceived between 1873 and 1875, this example cast between 1875 and 1910.Note: This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre 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 2025-7318B.Literature:Vers l'àge d'àirain, Rodin en Belgique, exh. cat., Musée Rodin, Paris, 1997, pp. 150-52, (illustration of another version).Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S.961, pp. 662-64 (illustrations of other versions).