Auguste RODIN (1840-1917) Lot n° 107

Metamorphoses of Ovid Patinated plaster proof, signed and dedicated "à mon ami Rollinat so(n) admirateur Rodin". H. 32.8 cm - W. 40 cm - D. 25.8 cm Provenance : - Maurice Rollinat (1846-1903), Fresselines - Georges Haviland (1870-1947), probably acquired before 1903 - Gift of Georges Haviland to Monsieur H. D circa 1947, then by descent Bibliography : - Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze, Catalogue des œuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, Musée Rodin, RMN, 2007, Tome 2, p. 516-517 for the Musée Rodin bronze and other plaster examples. Included in the archives of the Rodin Committee for the publication of the Catalogue Critique de l'Œuvre Sculpté de Auguste Rodin in preparation at Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay, under number 2024-7160B. A letter from François Lorenceau and Jérôme Le Blay for the Rodin Committee, dated March 15, 2024, will be given to the buyer. A group conceived before 1889, this plaster print, obtained by stamping, was executed between 1892 and 1899. This plaster was used to produce the sand-cast bronze, which was sold at the Georges Haviland collection sale on June 2-3, 1932 and is now in a private collection. Another bronze example (S. 1145), cast for the Museum's collections by Alexis Rudier in 1927, is in the collections of the Musée Rodin in Paris.