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Materials:
bronze
Size Notes:
17 x 18
Description:
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Exhibited:
New York, The Museum of Modern Art (on loan from 1990); New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art and New Orleans Museum of Art, The William S. Paley Collection, 1992-94, no. 65, p. 151, illustrated in color; San Francisco, de Young Museum; Portland Museum of Art; Quebec, Fine Arts Museum andBentonville,Crystal Bridges Museum of Art,The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism,2012-14, no. 65, p. 151, illustrated in color
Literature:
Lon Maillard,Auguste Rodin, Statuaire: Etudes sur quelques artistes originaux, Paris, 1899, pp. 63-66; Camille Mauclair,Auguste Rodin: The ManHis IdeasHis Works, London, 1905, pp. 34-39; pp. 36 and 38, illustrations of the monument; Frederick Lawton,The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin, London, 1906, pp. 145-54; pp. 145 and 151,illustrations of the monument; Muriel Ciolkowska,Rodin, London, 1912, pp. 42-49; p. 44, illustration of the monument; Gustave Coquiot,Le Vrai Rodin, Paris, 1913, pp. 131-40; p. 132, illustration of the monument; Judith Cladel,Rodin: The Man and his Art, New York, 1917, pp. 290-96; Rainer Maria Rilke,Auguste Rodin, Leipzig, 1922, no. 7, n.p., illustration of the plaster of the monument; Lonce Bndite,Rodin, London, 1924, pl. XXII, illustration of the plaster of the monument; Georges Grappe,Catalogue du Muse Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 132, p. 63, illustration of the plaster of the monument; Judith Cladel,Rodin: sa vie glorieuse, sa vie inconnue, Paris, 1936, pp. 152-60; Victor Frisch and Joseph T. Shipley,Auguste Rodin: A Biography, New York, 1939, pp. 136-50; Edouard Herriot,Rodin, Paris, 1949, pp. 28-29, illustrations of the monument; Marcel Aubert,Rodin sculptures, Paris, 1952, pp. 34-35, illustration of the monument; Ccile Goldscheider,Rodin, Paris, 1962, pp. 82-83,illustration of the monument; Ionel Jianou and Ccile Goldscheider,Rodin, Paris, 1967, pl. 41, illustration of the monument; Robert Descharnesand Jean-Franois Chabrun,Auguste Rodin, 1967, pp. 106-15; p. 114, illustration of the monument; Albert E. Elsen,Rodin, London, 1974, pp. 70-87; pp. 71, 84-85, illustrations of the monument; John L. Tancock,The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 398-402, listed;p. 377,illustration of the monument; p. 390, illustration of other casts; Catherine Lampert,Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1986, pp. 101-14; Ruth Butler,Rodin: The Shape of Genius, New Haven and London, 1993, pp. 199-213, p. 212, illustration of the plaster of the monument; Annette Haudiquet and Hlne Heyris,Autour du Monument des Bourgeois de Calais. Guide des sculptures monumentales Calais, Calais, 1999, p. 26; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain,Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, Paris, 2001, p. 18, illustration of another cast; Iain Ross and Anthea Snow, eds.,Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, London, 2001, no. 37, pp. 54-55, illustration of the monument; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Muse Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 220, 223 227, 230 and 237, illustrations of other casts
Provenance:
Muse Rodin, Paris; Eugne Rudier, Le Vsinet (acquired from the above in April 1930); Galerie Bollag, Zurich (acquired from the above in April 1930); Samuel Paley, New York ; William S. Paley, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1963); Acquired by bequest in 1990 by the William S. Paley Foundation