Les Amours conduisant le Monde (Roger Marx, Delteil, Thorson 1)

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) Les Amours conduisant le Monde (Roger Marx, Delteil, Thorson 1) drypoint, 1881, on laid Japon, signed in pencil in the margin upper right, a rich, early impression of the second state, printing with much burr and plate tone, with margins, inscribed in pencil along the lower sheet edge 'Le Printemps by Rodin (signature of the artist at upper right hand corner) For Nikifora, 1955 - Walter Pach No 278', scattered foxing, a vertical crease in the subject at right, other minor creases and some surface dirt mainly in the margins P. 201 x 251 mm.