Transcending Boundaries: International Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 25 October 2023
International Modern and Contemporary Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
About this Item
After Auguste Rodin
French 1840-1917
Tête de Madame Druet
signed, dated 1984, numbered III/IV, and bears the Delval studio's stamp
bronze on a perspex base
height: 14cm excluding base, 26,5cm including base; width: 10cm; depth: 11cm
Notes
The present lot is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Comité Auguste Rodin dated 23 September 2005.
Madame Druet was the wife of Eugène Druet, official photographer for Auguste Rodin.
Provenance
Private Collection, Paris.
Christie's, London, 21 October 1988, lot 561.
Christie's, London, 20 October 1989, lot 212.
Christie's, London, 26 June 1995, lot 5.
Soissons, Etude Laurent-Collignon, 2 July 1995.
Etude Artcurial-Briest, Paris, 2 July 2003, lot 625.
Christie's, South Kensington, 27 October 2005, lot 76.
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