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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 3, 2015 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 14 | $****** - ****** | Le Penseur, Taille De La Porte Dit Moyen Modèle |
sculpture
71.5 cm (28.15 in)
bronze
inscribed A. Rodin; inscribed with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier fondeur Paris and with the raised signature A. Rodin
Musée Rodin, Paris Herman d'Oelsnitz (Galerie Nichifutsu Geijijutsu-sha), Tokyo (acquired from the above by 1925) (possibly) The Prince Takamatsu, Japan (brother of Emperor Shōwa) Private Collection, Japan (a gift from the above after 1945
thence by descent) Galerie Tamenaga, Tokyo (acquired from the above in 2003) Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the above in January 2005) Acquired from the above by the present owner
Tokyo, Nishiyama Museum, 2005-2014 (on loan)
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, nos. 167-69, another cast illustrated pp. 73-74 Henri Martinie, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1949, no. 19, another cast illustrated Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, another cast illustrated pp. 25, 52 & 53 Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, another cast illustrated pl. 11 John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, another cast illustrated pp. 111-20 Albert E. Elsen, (ed.), Rodin Rediscovered, Washington, D. C., 1981, the plaster model illustrated p. 67 Albert E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, Stanford, 1985, figs. 50 & 60, illustrations of the clay model pp. 56 & 71 Antoinette le Normand-Romain (ed.), The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. II, another cast illustrated pp. 584-85
