Désespoir, Grand Modèle

Provenance:
Musée Rodin, Paris

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Acquired from the above in 1967 by Dominion Gallery, Montreal

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Private Collection, Montreal

Literature:
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze: catalogue des oeuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, Volume 1, 2007, the 1942 cast entitled Le Désespoir, in the collection of the Musée Rodin, reproduced page 306; the cast anterior to 1952 entitled Le Désespoir, in the Musée Rodin Collection, reproduced page 306; Figure 1 of another undated cast entitled Le Désespoir, reproduced page 307; the 1903 - 1904 cast entitled Le Désespoir sans terrasse, in the Musée Rodin Collection, reproduced page 308; the Perzinka cast entitled Le Désespoir, in the Stanford University Cantor Arts Center collection, reproduced page 309; a cast anterior to 1900 entitled Le Désespoir, reproduced page 309; a plaster version entitled Le Désespoir, plâtre à la terrasse, reproduced page 309; a marble version anterior to 1900, entitled Le Désespoir, reproduced page 309
Notes:
Please note: this work has been authenticated by the Comité Rodin, Paris, and will be included in Brame & Lorenceau, Paris, and Jérôme Le Blay's forthcoming catalogue raisonné under the number 2015-4776B (Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin). The letter from the Comité Rodin confirming the authenticity accompanies this lot.

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The present bronze was casted from a molding of the marble version of this sculpture commissioned by Harriet Hallowell before 1900. This lot is part of a series of eight bronzes commissioned to the Georges Rudier foundry by the Musée Rodin, Paris, between 1961 and 1967.