LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Eternel printemps, bronze with brown patina
Size Notes:
Height: 26 1?8 in. (66.5 cm.)
Description:
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Exhibited:
New York, Beadleston Gallery, Inc., The Herbert J. & Adele Klapper Collection, May 2002, no. 13 (illustrated in color).
Literature:
L. Maillard, Auguste Rodin, Statuaire, Paris, 1899, pp. 121-122 (marble version illustrated, fig. 16). G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 42, no. 69 (another cast illustrated). G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, p. 141 (another cast illustrated, pl. 56). R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 135 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 134). I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96 (another cast illustrated, pls. 56-57). L. Steinberg, Other Criteria, Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford, 1972, p. 428, no. 232 (marble version illustrated, p. 365). J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 241, 244-245 and 247, no. 32b (other versions illustrated, pp. 242-243 and 246, figs. 32-33 and 32-34). A.E. Elsen, Rodin’s Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 494-497, no. 148 (another cast illustrated, pp. 494-495, fig. 413 and larger version illustrated, p. 496, fig. 414). A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 334-337 (another cast illustrated, p. 334; terracotta version illustrated, p. 334; other versions illustrated, p. 336 and marble version illustrated, p. 337). A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, New York, 2013, p. 146 (plaster version illustrated, p. 147, fig. 139).
Provenance:
Gabriel Séailles, Barbizon (by 1923). Private collection, Paris (by descent from the above). M. Cadeac d'Arbaud, Paris (acquired from the above, 1983). Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 June 1986, lot 33. Galerie Tanagra, Paris (acquired at the above sale). Private collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above, 1986). Susan Seidel, Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the late owners, June 1996.