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After Rodin Mignon bronze

Auction Date: August 22, 2020

Sold for: $1,200




Lot: 252

(French 1840-1917)
Mignon
Bronze, posthumous cast
Including one inch marble base: 27 x 21 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches / 68.58 x 54.61 x 29.81 cm
Bears signature and date on the front right edge: A. Rodin 1867 stamped verso along the base of the bronze: A.S.B and numbered verso in the right shoulder 88/100
Notes: Mignon is the first of Rodins portraits of Rose Beuret, a seamstress he met in 1864 who became his studio helper, the mother of his son Auguste-Eugne, and his lifelong companion. They married only in 1917, the year they both died, she of pneumonia, and he several months later from complications of a stroke.
The title of this lively and informal portrait may refer to an 1866 opra comique of the same name by Ambroise Thomas, based on a character in Goethes 1796 novel Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship.
Artist: Rodin, After Auguste


Auction Date: August 22, 2020


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