Auguste de NIEDERHÄUSERN (RODO dit) (1863-191... Lot n° 4

OFFRANDE A BACCHUS, 1911 Third version Bronze with green patina Posthumous casting Signed and titled on the terrace Inscribed in a cartouche " Offrande à Bacchus RODO ", stamped " Cire perdue C. Valsuani" Height : 75 cm - 29.5 in. Signed and titled on the terrace, posthumous cast bronze with green patina, inscribed "Offrande à Bacchus Rodo" stamped "Cire perdue C.Valsuani" Provenance - Hôtel des ventes, Cannes. Acquired during this one by the current owner Bibliography - Claude Lapaire, Rodo, un sculpteur entre la Suisse et Paris. Catalog Raisonné, Benteli, 2001. Work listed under number 245 on page 351 of the book A student of Jules Salmson, Rodo studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, before moving to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian in 1886 and at the Beaux-Arts in 1887. He frequented Swiss artists such as Ferdinand Hodler, Eugène Grasset, Alexandre Perrier and Albert Trachsel, and was close to Parisian Symbolist, Bohemian and anarchist circles. A friend of Paul Verlaine, he sculpted his monument, which was inaugurated in 1911 in the Jardin du Luxembourg. He was the collaborator and practitioner of Auguste Rodin between 1892 and 1898, who was one of his fervent supporters.