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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Deux femmes nues; L'une assise et l'autre debout contre elle
signed with initials 'A.R' (lower left)
pencil on paper
12¼ x 7⅝ in. (31.3 x 19.5 cm.)
Drawn circa 1896-1899
Provenance
Martin Revson, New York.
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1971.
Literature
A. Elsen, “Drawing and the True Rodin,” Artforum, 10 February 1972, p. 65 (illustrated; dated circa 1900).
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Feingarten Galleries, Arp/Rodin, March-April 1971, no. 33 (illustrated; titled Two Figures).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Drawings of Rodin, November 1971-May 1972, pp. 133-135 (illustrated, p. 134 and illustrated again, p. 135, fig. 106).
San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Graphics from Four Bay Area Collections, 1973.
Stanford University Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, pp. 5 and 29, no. 2 (dated circa 1900 and titled Two Female Nudes).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, p. 384, no. 248 (dated circa 1895-1900).
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