Auguste RODIN (1840-1917). - Lot 48

Auguste RODIN (1840-1917). 2 L.A.S., February-March 1903, to Maurice Fenaille; 1 and 3 pages in-8° at address 182, Rue de l'Université, one envelope February 24. "I've been home nearly a month without being very ill, but taken all the same. I hope to go next Wednesday in eight to your house"... March 25. Dr. Tripier and Mr. Baudin came to Paris for the Lyon museum. "These gentlemen have asked me for the Tentation de St Antoine marble plus a large Orphée et Eurydice plaster group for the Musée de Lyon"; they saw at Meudon "one of Madame Fenaille's plaster busts which excited them, and I join them in asking you to let them take it for the museum. This would make for me a set of sculptures in this great city of Lyon, which would make me known by a bust and 2 groups"...