Auguste RODIN
Original bronze with nuanced brown-green patina, signed « Rodin ».
Posthumous cast by Georges Rudier. Bears the founder’s signature and the copyright of the Musée Rodin with the date 1966.
Cast in bronze in 12 models; our bronze is the 8th proof (inventory n°2.092).
Sold with an authenticity certificate of the Rodin museum.
Height: 14.5 cm – 0′ 5³/₄” in.
Exhibition: Paris, Musée Rodin, 30 November 1983 – 9 January 1984, Rodin, les mains, les chirurgiens, Paris, 1093.
Literature: Antoinette Lenormand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze – catalogue des œuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, Tome 2, p. 496 à 498.