Name: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Brand: Tête de jeune enfant dit aussi "Enfant de Mme Merrill"
Price: 12000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Tête de jeune enfant dit aussi "Enfant de Mme Merrill"
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed 'A. Rodin No 4 © by musée Rodin 1968.’ (on the right side); inscribed with foundry mark '.Georges Rudier..Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 7³⁄₈ in. (18.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1908; this bronze version cast in 1968

Musée Rodin, Paris.
B. Gerald Cantor, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, December 1968).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, circa 1969.

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This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2019-6027B.