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Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1967) Private Collection, Chicago (acquired in the late 1960s) Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, Municipal Museum and Fukuoka Cultural Center, Rodin , 1966, no. 85 Montreal, Dominion Gallery, Fiftieth Anniversary of Rodin’s Death , 1967, no. 50, p. 19, illustrated

Literature

Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art; The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University , New York, 2003, pp. 473-76 Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 141-42, illustration of another cast Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris , 1967, p. 205, illustration in color of another version John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 57, pp. 318-22, illustration of another cast

Catalog summary

Property from a Private Collection Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917 Athlète, version type B dite aussi Tête regardant à droite inscribed A. Rodin., with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. and © by musée Rodin 1965 and numbered 12; stamped A. Rodin (on the interior) bronze height: 17 ¾ in. 45.1 cm. Conceived in 1904; this example cast in 1965. This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2025-7587B. Provenance Musée Rodin, Paris Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1967) Private Collection, Chicago (acquired in the late 1960s) Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner Exhibited Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, Municipal Museum and Fukuoka Cultural Center, Rodin , 1966, no. 85 Montreal, Dominion Gallery, Fiftieth Anniversary of Rodin’s Death , 1967, no. 50, p. 19, illustrated Literature Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art; The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University , New York, 2003, pp. 473-76 Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. I, Paris, 2007, pp. 141-42, illustration of another cast Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris , 1967, p. 205, illustration in color of another version John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 57, pp. 318-22, illustration of another cast