WORLD RECORD PRICE FOR RODIN’s ‘THINKER’
A 28 inch bronze cast of Auguste Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ sells for a record $15.3 million at Sothebys’ recent Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York, amid the great sales results. The record $15.3 million surpassed the previous record of $12 million.
Auguste Rodin
1840 – 1917
LE PENSEUR, TAILLE DE LA PORTE DIT MOYEN MODÈLE
Estimate: 8,000,000 – 12,000,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 15,285,000 USD (Hammer Price with Buyer’s Premium)
Inscribed A. Rodin and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris; additionally inscribed on a plaque affixed to the rock Le Penseur: Executé en 1906 dans mes ateliers et sous ma surveillance pour Monsieur Ralph Pulitzer, Auguste Rodin.
Bronze
Height: 28 1/8 in.
71.5 cm
Conceived in 1880, this cast executed between January and June, 1906.
