Auguste Rodin

inscribed with the signature A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis. Rudier Fondeur. Paris; stamped with the raised signature A. Rodin (on the interior)

85.8 by 50 by 59 cm. 33 3/4 by 19 3/4 by 23 1/4 in.

Musée Rodin, Paris

M. Goertz, Germany (acquired from the above in July 1943)

Private Collection, Hamburg (acquired by 1959)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby's, London, 24 June 2015, lot 12 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Hong Kong, Sotheby's Maison, Eugène Carrière (1849-1906) — OUT OF THE SHADOWS, 2-22 August 2025

Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, London, 1917, no.6, illustration of another cast

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, nos. 91-92, illustration of the marble version

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 71, illustration of the larger marble version

Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, no. 71, illustration of the marble version 

Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, sa vie, son œuvre, son héritage, Paris, 1962, p.49, illustration of the marble version 

Bernard Champigneuelle, Rodin, London, 1967, nos. 78-79, pp. 162-63, illustration of the marble version

Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 131, illustration of the larger marble version

Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, nos. 54-55, illustration of the marble version

Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, no. 49, p.121, illustration of the marble version

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p.77, illustration of the marble version

Albert Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, cover, illustration of the marble version

Hélène Pinet, Rodin, sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 34, p.46, illustration of the marble

Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection de Musée Rodin, Paris, 1987, no. 79, p.185, illustration of the marble version

Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 585, illustration of another cast 

David Finn & Marie Busco, Rodin and his Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, pp. 60-61, illustrations of another cast

Albert Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Centre for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 49, pp. 214-15, illustrations of another cast

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.472, pp. 158-59, illustrations of another cast

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