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11. Hand no. 32, Small Model ( Main no. 32, petit modèle)

Conceived c. 1880 – 85 , cast in 1959 Bronze with brown patina  Height 3 inches ( 7 .6 cm) Signed inside wrist

provenance Musée Rodin; Madame Jean Schlumberger (purchased December, 1959 ); thence by descent; Private Collection. literature Jérôme Le Blay, Catalogue critique de l’Oeuvre sculpté d’Auguste Rodin (in preparation), Paris, no. 2008 - 1884 B.

The present example is one of an edition of 12 bronzes produced between 1958 and 19 6 4 at the Georges Rudier foundry under the direction of the Musée Rodin.