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Femme nue assise (Seated Female Nude)
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1840-1917
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Width: 27.4 cm
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Auguste Rodin’s drawings are particularly appealing to forgers, as his sketchy lines seem deceptively easy to imitate. Scholars have identified at least four different forgers’ hands at work on dozens of fake Rodin drawings. These fakes, however, often lack Rodin’s refined simplicity and sense of anatomy.
In this drawing, the outlines of the lumpy female nude are awkward and wooden. Additionally, the loop of the ‘d’ in Rodin’s name doesn’t match his genuine signature.
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Exhibition History
The nude: 19th & 20th century paintings, drawings, sculpture , prints, Morley Gallery, London, 10/04/1975-24/05/1975
Drawings and engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1966 ...More
Rodin, an exhibition of sculpture with some drawings and prints, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 7 other cities, 1966-1967
Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960
Impressionistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, Orangerie, Paris, 1955
Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948
long-term loan, City Art Gallery, Wakefield, 1946-1947 ...Less
Literature
no. 109
illus. p. 217
The nude: 19th & 20th century paintings, drawings, sculpture , prints, Morley Gallery, London, 1975
cat. no. 70
Drawings and engravings from the Courtauld Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, December 1959-April 1960, 1974 (rev. ed.)
no. 47
illus. pl. VI ...More
Drawings and engravings from the Courtauld Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1966
cat. no. 33
Rodin, an exhibition of sculpture with some drawings and prints, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 7 other cities, 1966-67
cat. no. 45
Levy, Mervyn, The artist and the nude: an anthology of drawings, London 1965
illus. pl. 85
Levy, Mervyn, The human form in art, London 1961
illus. facing p. 129
Drawings and engravings from the Courtauld Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, Dec. 1959 - Apr. 1960, 1959-1960
cat. no. 33
Impressionistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, Orangerie, Paris, 1955
cat. no. 89
illus. pl. 80
Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 149
Reynolds, G., 19th-century drawings, 1850-1900, London 1949
illus. pl. 29 ...Less
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Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite: "L"; lower left corner, graphite, former acc. no.: "54.35"; lower right, graphite, underlined, forged signature: "Aug Rodin". Verso: written twice, in lower left and right corners, graphite: “No 12”.
Collector's mark: none.
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