Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

L'ternel Printemps

細節

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'ternel Printemps
signed 'Rodin' (on the top right of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR.' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 9.7/8 in. (25.1 cm.)
Original plaster version executed in 1884; this bronze version cast between 1898-1915

來源

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1984, lot 206.

出版

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Muse Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 69 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 42). R. Descharnes and J.-F Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 135 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 134). I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96, pls. 56-57 (large bronze version illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 241-247, no. 32b (large bronze version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin Rediscovered, Washington D.C., 1981, p. 68, fig. 313 (clay version illustrated).

拍品專文

As in many of his great figure groupings, Rodin developed the character in L'ternel Printemps from earlier material. The figure of the woman is derived from Torse d'Adle, which appears on the top left corner of the tympanum of La porte de l'Enfer. The lovers were originally known as Zphyr et la Terre and were exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1898 as Cupidon et Psych (there are small Cupid's wings on the back of the man).

Due to its popularity, Rodin executed a second version of L'ternel Printemps, with an extended base and a rocky outcrop to support the left arm and outstretched leg of the male figure. This version became the model for the Barbedienne series of casts which were produced in three sizes over a period of twenty-one years.