Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) - Lot 42

Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) Jean d'Aire (A Burgher of Calais) Patinated bronze proof, signed and stamped A. Rodin, Alexis Rudier fondeur. Rodin, Alexis Rudier fondeur. Height: 46.5 cm Model created in 1895 and cast by Rudier at the request of Georges Grappe for the Rodin exhibition organized by G. & L. Bollag at the Hotel Savoy in Zurich in 1927. Provenance: - Commissioned by Georges Grappe from the Rudier foundry on June 30, 1927 (Ph.1). - Delivery from the Rudier foundry to the Musée Rodin on September 27, 1927 - G. & L. Bollag, Zurich (Ph.2). - M. &. Mme Blattmann-Ziegler, acquired from the previous owner on December 5, 1927 for the sum of 12,000 Francs (Ph.3). - By descent to the present owner. Exhibition: - November 7 - November 19, 1927, Zurich, Hôtel Savoy, G. & L. Bollag, Exposition des œuvres de Rodin éditée par le Musée Rodin, Paris, our exhibited copy (Ph.4 &5). Bibliography : - Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Essai de classement chronologique des œuvres d'Auguste Rodin, fifth edition, 1944, chapter devoted to Les Bourgeois de Calais, pp. 59-61, Jean d'Aire, no. 167. - John L. Tancock, The sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, chapter on The Burghers of Calais, pp. 376-402. - Anne Pingeot, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Laure de Margerie, Musée d'Orsay, Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1986, a similar example is mentioned on page 280 under reference RF 2913 (on deposit at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille). - Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze, catalog des œuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, volume I, Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2007, chapter devoted to Les Bourgeois de Calais, pp. 209 to 241, Jean d'Aire pp. 217 to 222, two similar examples described and reproduced on page 220 under nos. 422 (sand cast before 1952) and RFR 55, S.757 (sand cast before 1949). - Gustave Coquiot, Le Vrai Rodin, Éditions Jules Tallandier, Paris, 1913, chapter on Les Bourgeois de Calais, pages 129 to 140.