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124Ο

Auguste Rodin

Les bourgeois de Calais, deuxième maquette
(i) Pierre de Wissant, vêtu; (ii) Jean d'Aire, vêtu; (iii) Jacques de Wissant, vêtu; (iv) Jean de Fiennes, torse nu; (v) Eustache de Saint-Pierre, vêtu; (vi) Andieu d'Andres, vêtu

Estimate
$700,000 - 1,000,000
$903,000
Lot Details
bronze with brown patina, in 6 parts
each stamped with the artist's signature and number “A.Rodin N°8” on the top of the base; each stamped with the foundry mark and dated “© by MUSEE RODIN 1973 Susse Fondeur Paris” on the base
(i) 27 5/8 x 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (70.2 x 30.2 x 30.2 cm)
(ii) 27 x 9 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (68.6 x 24.8 x 26 cm)
(iii) 27 x 10 1/4 x 14 in. (68.6 x 26 x 35.6 cm)
(iv) 28 1/4 x 19 1/8 x 17 3/8 in. (71.8 x 48.6 x 44.1 cm)
(v) 27 1/8 x 13 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. (68.9 x 33.7 x 27 cm)
(vi) 24 x 8 3/4 x 17 in. (61 x 22.2 x 43.2 cm)
Conceived in 1885 and cast by Susse Fondeur in April 1973, in Paris, this work is number 8 from an edition of 12.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive nos. 2025-8201B, 2025-8199B, 2025-8198B, 2025-8200B, 2025-8197B, 2008-2278B.

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