Auguste Rodin Les Bourgeois de Calais: five bronzes

A Legacy of Innovation: Works From The Collection of William S. Paley Sold to Benefit the Museum of Modern Art and other Charitable Organizations
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917

Les Bourgeois de Calais: five bronzes
bronze
Height range of figures: 17 to 18 ¾ in. 43.2 to 47.7 cm.
Conceived between 1887 and 1895, these reductions conceived between 1895-1903 and these casts made in 1927-28 by the Alexis Rudier Foundry.

These works will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l’oeuvre sculpté d’Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin in collaboration with Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive numbers 2007-1278B, 2007-1279B, 2007-1280B, 2007-1281B and 2007-1282B.

For additional information on the individual figures, please see the slideshow feature in the catalogue note below.

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薪火相傳——威廉・佩利收藏，收益惠澤紐約現代藝術博物館及其他慈善機構
奧古斯特・羅丹
1840 - 1917年
《加萊民眾：五尊銅像》

青銅

Provenance:
Musée Rodin, Paris
Eugène Rudier, Le Vésinet (acquired from the above in April 1930)
Galerie Bollag, Zurich (acquired from the above in April 1930)
Samuel Paley, New York
William S. Paley, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1963)
Acquired by bequest in 1990 by the William S. Paley Foundation