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Auguste Rodin and Georges Rudier Foundry

Balzac

1891-1892

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Balzac

1891-1892

Physical Qualities Bronze, 50 1/2 in. (128.3 cm.)
Credit Line Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Collection
Object Number 1966.55.26
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1966; Alan and Janet Wurtzburger, Pikesville, Maryland, cast on the authority of the Musée Rodin, Paris, for $3,000.00, 1957.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Auguste Rodin", April 29-Sept. 8, 1963, no. 16; circulated to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.

Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004 - January 16, 2005, Naples Museum of Art February 5, 2005-May ,1 2005.

Oliver C. Shell, BMA, "Rodin: Expression and Influence", August 1, 2007-April 6, 2008.
"The Wurtzburger Collection," BMA News, vol. XXIII, No. 3, Spring 1960, pp. 5-6, cat. no. 18, ill. p. 5.
Athen Tacha Spear, "Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 21-24, 26, 92 (for other casts of "Balzac").
Willian C. Seitz, "Quality in Sculpture," "Annual III," The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, no. 7, ill. p. 60.

Inscribed: Right side top of base (in script): A. Rodin; along lower edge of base: (c) Musee Rodin 1957; lower edge of base: Georges Rudier / Fondeur Paris

Artist

Auguste Rodin

1839–1916

French, 1840-1917
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