About This Artwork
Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917
Springtimec. 1878
Charcoal, with stumping and traces of black chalk, on blue laid paper (discolored to gray) with pink and blue fibers
469 x 317 mm
Margaret Day Blake Fund Income, 1984.99R
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, "Drawings by Masters," 1917, cat. 92.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "The Works of Auguste Rodin," May-September 1963, cat. 91; traveled to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, October-December 1963.
Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "The Drawings of Rodin," November 1971-January 1972, cat. 11; traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, March-May 1972.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, "Rodin," 1986-1987, cat. 4.
The Art Institute of Chicago, July 2, 1993-October 26, 1994.
Ownership History
Hugo Perls (died 1977), New York; sold, Christie's, New York, May 18, 1983, Perls estate sale, lot 108. Sold by Margo Pollins Schab, New York, to the Art Institute, 1984.