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Dimensions: height: 33cm., 13in.
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Provenance: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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Literature: Reine-Marie Paris, The Life of Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse and Mistress, New York, 1988, p. 72, no. 37, illustration of the marble
Reine-Marie Paris & Arnaud de La Chapelle, L'?uvre de Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1990, pp. 147-48, no. 33, illustrations of the marble and another cast
Gérard Bouté, Camille Claudel, le miroir et la nuit, Paris, 1995, p. 228, cited
Anne Rivière, Bruno Gaudichon & Danielle Ghanassia, Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1996, p. 152, no. 61.3, illustration of another cast
Reine-Marie Paris, Camille Claudel retrouvée, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2000, p. 325, no. 34, illustration of another cast
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Notes: The present work is one of only two located casts of l'Aurore. It possibly depicts the same girl as in the series of works of La Petite châtelaine in which Claudel portrayed the six year old Madeleine Boyer, grand-daughter of her hostess at the Château d'Islette where she stayed in 1893. The figure in the present work has a similar questioning and vivacious expression, which is accentuated by the sweep of hair that curves over her shoulder.
