Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Auguste Rodin french , 1840 – 1917

Standing Woman in Drapery ( Femme debout à la draperie )

c. 1896 ? Pen and brown ink with white gouache on paper 6 7 ⁄ 8 x 4 ¼ inches ( 17 . 5 x 10 . 8 cm) Signed lower left provenance Collection Eugène Laporte (c. 1911 – 12 ) Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Lair-Dubreuil, Collection of M.E.L., November 22 , 1930 , no. 45 Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Ader, Collection of M.E. L., March 17 , 1938 , no. 45 Thomas Colville Fine Art, as of 2001 Private collection, New York. This drawing is recorded under number 191001 in the Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings and Paintings of Auguste Rodin , in preparation. A certificate of authenticity by Christina Buley-Uribe, dated October 24 , 2019 accompanies it. Our work can be compared to a series of drawings of figures in motion executed with pen, ink, watercolor and white gouache on laid paper (figs. 1 – 3 ), all representing women playfully arranging their draperies. In some cases, they can be likened to “bourrée dancers” drawn by Rodin during his stays at Maurice Fenaille’s Château de Montal, Lot. Often sketched over white gouache washes, the faces sometimes give the impression of masks.