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Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in October 1967) Private Collection, Washington D.C. (probably acquired from the above) Sotheby’s, New York, 7 October 1988, lot 15 (consigned by the above) Private Collection, Chicago (acquired at the above sale) Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Literature

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, nos. 87 and 88, pp. 49-50, illustration of another cast Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris , 1938, no. 100, p. 42, illustration of another cast Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1944, no. 113, pp. 42-43, illustration of another cast Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 28, illustration of another cast Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, New York, 1967, pp. 134-35, illustration in color of another cast John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32a, p. 242, illustration of the plaster version; p. 246, fig. 32-4, illustration of another cast Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making , Oxford and Ithaca, New York, 1980, pl. 48, illustration of the clay; p. 171 Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Rodin Rediscovered , 1981, p. 68, fig. 3.13, illustration of the clay David Finn and Marie Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection , New York, 1991, p. 227, illustration of another cast; p. 238 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, no. 148, pp. 494-97, fig. 414, illustration of another cast Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. I, Paris, 2007, p. 331, illustration of another cast Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , New York, 2013, no. 139, pp. 146-47, illustration of the clay and plaster versions

Catalog summary

Property from a Private Midwest Collection Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917 Éternel printemps, premier état, moyen modèle inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark .Georges Rudier. .Fondeur. Paris. and © .by. musée Rodin. 1966 ; stamped A. Rodin (on the underside) bronze height: 19 ⅞ in. 50.5 cm. Conceived in 1884; this reduction conceived circa 1900; this example cast in 1966. This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2026-8256B. Provenance Musée Rodin, Paris Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in October 1967) Private Collection, Washington D.C. (probably acquired from the above) Sotheby’s, New York, 7 October 1988, lot 15 (consigned by the above) Private Collection, Chicago (acquired at the above sale) Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner Literature Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, nos. 87 and 88, pp. 49-50, illustration of another cast Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris , 1938, no. 100, p. 42, illustration of another cast Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1944, no. 113, pp. 42-43, illustration of another cast Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, p. 28, illustration of another cast Robert Descharnes and Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, New York, 1967, pp. 134-35, illustration in color of another cast John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 32a, p. 242, illustration of the plaster version; p. 246, fig. 32-4, illustration of another cast Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making , Oxford and Ithaca, New York, 1980, pl. 48, illustration of the clay; p. 171 Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Rodin Rediscovered , 1981, p. 68, fig. 3.13, illustration of the clay David Finn and Marie Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection , New York, 1991, p. 227, illustration of another cast; p. 238 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, no. 148, pp. 494-97, fig. 414, illustration of another cast Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. I, Paris, 2007, p. 331, illustration of another cast Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , New York, 2013, no. 139, pp. 146-47, illustration of the clay and plaster versions