Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) - Lot 37

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Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) - Lot 37
Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) Young Girl Entrusting Her Secret to Isis or The Good Genie, 1895-1900 Bronze proof, unnumbered. Cast in Georges Rudier sand, commissioned by the Musée Rodin in 1963. Signed (on the base on the left and cartouche inside): A. Rodin. Founder's signature (on the base on the right): .Georges Rudier./.fondeur. Paris. Copyright of the Rodin museum (on the left base) : © by musée Rodin.1963. 23 x 12 x 16 cm This work will be included in the archives of the Rodin Committee for the publication of the Catalogue Critique de l'Œuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared at the Brame & Lorenceau Gallery under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the number 2021-6300B. BIBLIOGRAPHY : - Cinquantenaire de la mort de Rodin, exhibition catalogue, May-June 1967, no. 44, ill. - Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze, catalogue des œuvres conservées au musée Rodin, tome II, RMN/musée Rodin, 2007, p. 468-469. Rodin had at least five bronze copies of this subject made from 1895 onwards, including one by François Rudier and three by the Léon Perzinka foundry. In 1906, August Thyssen commissioned an enlarged version in marble for his castle in the Rhineland, turning the winter garden into a small museum of Rodin's marbles. The title Young Girl Entrusting Her Secret to Isis was suggested by Rainer Maria Rilke, whom Thyssen had asked to write the notes on Rodin's works. Later, the work was named Le Bon Génie, a title that certainly referred to the group Les Mauvais Génies, but the relationship to Isis, the Egyptian goddess of beauty, anchors the sculpture in Rilke's symbolism, revealing a particularly sensual feminine intimacy. The Rodin Museum decided to continue with the edition, so seductive is the model's composition, where the subject is a pretext for the assembly of embracing bodies. Seventeen copies are known, one of which was cast in 1944 by Alexis Rudier and eleven others were produced between 1958 and 1963 by the Georges Rudier foundry. This print was exhibited in Montreal at the Dominion Gallery in 1967 during the exhibition "Cinquantenaire de la mort de Rodin".
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