LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Measurements:

32.64 in. (82.90 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed A. Rodin

Exhibited:

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Rodin, 1963, no. 65, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature:

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 199, illustration of another cast p. 82 Albert Sigogneau, 'Le tourment de Rodin', in L'Amour de l'art, Paris, December 1935, illustration of another cast p. 379 Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 248, illustration of another cast p. 85 Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, illustration of another cast p. 50 Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, illustration of another cast p. 185 Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of another cast pl. 77 Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of the terracotta p. 249 Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, illustration of another cast p. 185 John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, illustration of another cast p. 290 Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, illustration of the plaster pl. 95 Albert E. Elsen (ed.), Rodin Rediscovered, Washington D.C., 1981, illustration of another cast p. 111 Hélène Pinet, Rodin Sculpteur et Les Photographes de Son Temps, Paris, 1985, no. 57, illustration of another cast p. 69 Catherine Lampert, Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1986, no. 141, illustration of the smaller version p. 221; no. 144, illustrations of another cast pls. 206-207 Jane Mayo Roos, 'Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo: Art and Politics in the Third Republic', in The Art Bulletin, New York, December 1986, fig. 24, illustration of another cast p. 655 Bernhard Champigneulle, Rodin, Paris, 1989, illustration of another cast p. 105 Mary L. Levkoff, Rodin in His Time, Los Angeles & New York, 1994, no. 43, illustration of another cast p. 137 Ruth Butler, La solitude du génie, Paris, 1998, no. 138, illustration of another cast p. 187 Rachel Blackburn et al., Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, Los Angeles, 2001, no. 51, colour illustration of another cast p. 68 Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, no. S.1068, illustrations of another cast pp. 452 & 453

Provenance:

Richard S. Davis, Wayzata, Minnesota (acquired before 1963) Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above) Sylvester Stallone, Los Angeles (acquired from the above) Meyers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica Larry & Leah Superstein, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1990. Sold by their estate: Sotheby’s, London, 19th June 2007, lot 2) Purchased at the above sale by the present owner