RODIN, Auguste

Paris 1840 - Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine 1917

Maker: Rudier, Eugène

Grande main crispée droite

Large Clenched Right Hand [Museum's Title: The Clenched Hand]

modeled c. 1885, cast c. 1925?

bronze; sand cast [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]

fragment

Dimensions (HxWxD): 18 ¹⁄₂ x 11 ³⁄₄ x 8 in.

front center of base: A. Rodin
rear center of base: Alexis RUDIER. / Fondeur. PARIS.

Acc. No.: F1929-7-29

Credit Line: Bequest of Jules E. Mastbaum, 1929

Photo credit: Rodin Museum, Philadelphia

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rodin Museum/Philadelphia Museum of Art

www.rodinmuseum.org

Provenance

• 1925, Possibly part of Jules E. Mastbaum's third purchase order (27 august) or fourth purchase order (September-November) from the Musée Rodin, Paris [D73 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1925, August 27, Commissioned by the Musée Rodin, Paris [D6 RE1 et RE2 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1925, Cast by Eugène Rudier (1875-1952) who continued using the mark of his father Alexis Rudier (?-1897)
• 1925, December 18, Delivery date [ACHD14 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1925, Jules Mastbaum [ACHD5, ACHD10 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1926, June 10, Invoice date [ACHD12 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1927, November 24, Payment date [ACHD14 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1929, Bequest of Jules E. Mastbaum

Bibliography

• 1929 Watkins
  Fridolyn G. Watkins, Rodin Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Rodin Museum, 1929, p. 13 no. 29
• 1969 Tancock
  John L. Tancock, Rodin Museum: Handbook, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969, no. 116
• 1976 Tancock
  John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, David R. Godine, 1976, p. 616-621, p. 619, repr.
• 2003 Elsen
  Albert E. Elsen, Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 582-593
• 2007 Le Normand-Romain (français)
  Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, avec la collaboration d'Hélène Marraud et Diane Tytgat, introductions par Dr. Ruth Butler et Mr. Régis Cusinberche, Rodin et le bronze. Catalogue des œuvres conservées au musée Rodin, 2 volumes, Paris, Musée Rodin / Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007, vol. 2, pp.496-501, Grande main crispée droite, 1906 ?, cet exemplaire est cité p.501 : "Bronzes : Alexis Rudier : [...]. Puis Philadelphie, Rodin Museum, commandé par Jules Mastbaum, 1925"
• 2007 Le Normand-Romain (English)
  Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, with the collaboration of Hélène Marraud and Diane Tytgat, introductions by Dr. Ruth Butler and Mr. Régis Cusinberche, The Bronzes of Rodin. Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, 2 volumes, English version, Paris, Musée Rodin / Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007, vol. 2, pp.496-501, Large Clenched Right Hand, 1906?, this copy is mentioned p.501: "Bronzes : casts by Alexis Rudier : [...]. Then Philadelphia, Rodin Museum, commissioned by Mastbaum, 1925"

Exhibitions

• 1926 Philadelphia
  
  Exhibit of the Rodin Museum of Philadelphia, Jules E. Mastbaum Foundation, Philadelphia, Sesquicentennial Exposition, 1926, no. 1644, as "Study (Right Hand)"
  
  
  1970 Baltimore
  
  The Part is the Whole, Baltimore, Museum of Art, 2 December-1 February 1970

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