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AUGUSTE RODIN Femme a sa toilette.
Gouache, pen and ink, and pencil on cream laid paper, 1890-1895. 177x115 mm; 7x4 1/2 inches. Signed in ink, lower right recto (the signature faded).
Provenance: Émile Laporte, Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 22, 1930, lot 44, as Étude de femme demi-nue debout et de face; Rheims and Laurin, Palais Galliéra, Paris, March 12, 1970, lot 81; private collection, Michigan.
Christina Buley-Uribe has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Rodin's (1840-1917) drawings and works on paper rarely served as preliminary sketches for his sculptures, in fact the majority were created by Rodin studying his own earlier sculptures or that by other artists, including Michelangelo. Rodin simplified these figures to near abstraction and often floated them against a wash of color on the sheet, creating dynamism by removing context.
