Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Bronze portrait bust of Victor Hu...

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£40,000

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)
Bronze portrait bust of Victor Hugo
Buste de Victor Hugo, dit 'à l'Illustre Maître'

An early twentieth century bronze model of a bust of Victor Hugo entitled 'Bust to the illustrious Master' by Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917).  This bronze was produced using the lost wax process at the Montagutelli Foundry, Paris, circa 1912. Prior to casting is was signed in the wax 'A. Rodin'. It has a dark brown patina with golden undertones.

Provenance:

• Estrada Collection, Buenos Aires

• The Paris Salon of 1884.


• Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 1930 (variant).


• 'Rodin et le Ecrivains de son temps', Musee Rodin, Paris, 23 June-18 October,  1976 (variant).


• 'Victor Hugo', Kunsthaus, Zurich, 4 June - 23 August 1987, cat. no. 70 (variant).


• 'Rodin: 150th Anniversary of his Birth', Museum of art, Miyagi; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaragi; cat. no. S-45, 25 August - 9 December, 1990 (variant).


• 'Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) Meishuguan, Beijing; Exhibition Center, Shanghai; Museum of Fine Art, Hong Kong; Fine Arts Museum, Tapei; 1993 (variant).


• 'Rodin', Municipal Museum of Art, Reykavik, no. 61, 23 October - 12 December 1993 (variant).


• 'Rodin et la Belgique', Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, 7 September - 14 December, 1997.


• 'Victor Hugo vu par Rodin', Musee des Beaux Arts et d'Archeologie, Besancon, no. 25, 4 October 2002 - 27 January 2003 (variant).


• 'D'Ombre et de Marbre. Hugo face a Rodin', Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, 17 October 2003 - 1 February 2004 (variant).


• 'Rodin y la revolucion de la escultura. De Camille Claudel a Giacometti', Caixaforum, Barcelona, cat. no. 8, 29 October 2004 - 27 February 2005 (variant).


• ‘Rodin et son Contemporains’, July 6th to September 9th 2017, McArthurGlen Provence, Miramas (this actual cast).


• ‘Monumental Inspiration - Rodin and Beyond’, October 2nd to November 17th 2017, Sladmore Gallery, London, illustrated cat. no. 1 (this actual cast).


• Fiddian Green, Rodin and the Elgin Marbles - Classical Inspiration, April 25th to May 18th 2018, Sladmore Gallery, London (this actual cast).

• 'The Bronzes of Rodin. Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin', by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Paris, 2007, page 432-433.


• 'Rodin the Shape of Genius', by Ruth Butler, 1993, pages 172-178.


• 'Rodin's Art. The Rodin Collection Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Stanford University, Albert E. Elsen, with Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, 2003, pages 293 - 296.