Study of a Seated Man (possibly for "Ugolino"),
Rilke und Rodin, Munich and Bremen, Germany, June-August 1955, no. 5.
Twenty-firth Anniversary Exhibition, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, unnumbered, as Study for the Thinker.
With Wolfgang Gurlitt (1888-1965), Munich, probably by 1945-at least June 1955 [1];
With Fine Arts Associates, New York, by September 20, 1958;
Purchased from Fine Arts Associates by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.
NOTES:
[1] In the 1945 Waldmann catalogue, the owner is listed as W. G., Bad Aussee. Gurlitt lent the sculpture to the 1955 exhibition.
Emil Waldmann, Auguste Rodin (Vienna: A. Schroll, 1945), 76, 125.
Rilke and Rodin, exh. cat. (Munich: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Germany, 1955), 19, 22.
“Twenty-fifth
Anniversary Exhibition,” Bulletin
(The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum), exh. cat., 1, no. 2 (December 1958), as Study of the Thinker.
“Rare
Gifts by Kansas Citians, New Purchases and Loans in Nelson Gallery Exhibit,” Kansas City Star (December 7, 1958): F, (repro.),
as wax model for “The Thinker.”
Albert Edward Elsen, Rodin's Gates of Hell (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1960), 96, 129.
Albert Alhadeff, "Michelangelo and the Early Rodin," The Art Bulletin 45, no. 4 (December 1963), 366, (repro).
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Rodin Museum of Art, 1976), 66, 67, 112, 113, 116, 118.
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Thinker and the Dilemmas of Modern Public Sculpture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), 36, 37, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 206.
Flavio Fergonzi, Maria Mimita Lamberti, Pina Ragionieri, and Christopher Riopelle, Rodin and Michelangelo: A Study in Artistic Inspiration, exh. cat. (Philadelphia Mueum of Art, 1997), 208, 211, (repro.).
Bernard Barryte, Albert E Elsen, and Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin's Art: the Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 180.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 118.
