Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Torse d'homme

細節

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Torse d'homme
signed and numbered on the left thigh 'A. Rodin No 7', inscribed with foundry mark on the back '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris.',
dated on the bottom and back '© by musée Rodin 1963'
bronze with green and black patina
Height: 12¼in. (31cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1882; this bronze version cast in 1963, number seven in an edition of 12

來源

Musée Rodin, Paris
Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London (acquired by the present owner, 1967)

出版

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 53 (plaster version illustrated, p. 38)
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, no. 10-2 (another cast illustrated, p. 166)

拍品專文

This sculpture is derived from the Falling Man, which appears in The Gates of Hell. The Falling Man also served as the basis for I am Beautiful, 1882 (also known as The Rape), The Man with a Serpent, 1885, and Two Struggling Figures, also from the mid-1880s. A version of the torso enlarged to 43¼ inches was exhibited at Düsseldorf in 1904 where it was titled Torso Louis XIV, and was later known as Marysas.