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Materials:

bronze with dark brown and red patina

Size Notes:

59

Description:

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Markings:

signed 'A. Rodin'

Exhibited:

Kunsthalle Basel, Socit des amis des Arts de Ble, Auguste Rodin: Exposition de sculptures, aquarelles, dessins et estampes originales du maitre, April 1918, no. 46 (titled Phryn). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Rondom Rodin: Tentoonstelling Honderd Jaar Fransche Sculptuur, July-September 1939, p. 105, no. 288.

Literature:

Ministre de la Culture, Rpertoire des biens spolis en France durant la Guerre 1939-1945, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 408, no. 906. G. Grappe, Le Muse Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 141, no. 55 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 55). A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Muse Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, pp. 628-629 (another cast illustrated, fig. 5).

Provenance:

M. Desvres, France (by 1918). Galerie Haussmann (Gustave Danthon), Paris (acquired from the above, 1927). Hugo Perls, Berlin and Paris (acquired from the above, 1929).Transferred to the Jeu de Paume in Paris on 31 October 1942, kept at the Mobilier National, Paris, and restituted to Hugo Perls, New York, between November 1947 and May 1956.By descent from the above to the present owner, circa 1970.This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpt currently being prepared by the Comit Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jrme Le Blay under the archive number 2022-6565B.