Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Auguste Rodin french , 1840 – 1917 . Standing Fauness—Simple Rock Version ( Faunesse debout—version au rocher sample ) Conceived 1884 , this cast 1956 Bronze with a brown patina with touches of green patina 23 1 ⁄ 8 x 10½ x 6½ inches ( 59 x 26 . 9 x 16 . 8 cm)

Signed “A. Rodin” on lower base at front, with the “© by Musée Rodin 1956 ” at the right lower edge and foundry mark “Georges Rudier / Fondeur Paris” at the back edge of the base provenance Musée Rodin, Paris Galerie Vomel, Dusseldorf (aquired from the above, December 1959 )

Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, June 3 , 1961 , lot 449 (BI) Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, June 12 , 1963 , lot 608 Private collection, Germany Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, November 25 , 1972 , lot 751 B.G. Cantor, New York by descent to Private collection with Robert Bowman ( 2014 ) Private collection. Comité Rodin certificate number 2014 - 4299 B

A beautifully formed young female, Rodin’s fauness, so called in spite of being all human in form, balances herself against a tall rock, her legs strong, though bent in the act of leaning. Her arms are posed in uneven gestures, her right arm bent as she brings her hand to her mouth, and her left arm extended out straight with clenched fist directed upward. Is she sad, angry, distressed or reaching for or against something we don’t see, while she tilts her head in anguish, holding her chin against her other hand.