Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

L'age d'airain (The Age of Bronze)

細節

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
L'age d'airain (The Age of Bronze)
signed, inscribed with foundry mark and dated 'Rodin Georges Rudier Foundeur Paris Muse Rodin 1963'
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 25.1/8 in. (63.9 cm.)
Original clay version executed in 1875; this bronze version cast in 1963

來源

Muse Rodin, Paris

出版

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Muse Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 35 (another cast illustrated).
A. E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, pp. 20-26 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 20).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, no. 12 (another cast illustrated, p. 51).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, pp. 53-54 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 85 (another cast illlustrated, figs. 6-7).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin, Sculptures, London, 1970, pls. 4-5 (another cast illustrated).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 342-356, no. 64 (another cast illustrated, p. 343).
A. E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Ithaca, New York, 1980, pls. 2 and 5 (plaster version illustrated, pp. 36-37).
C. Goldscheider, Auguste Rodin, Catalogue raisonn de l'oeuvre sculpt, Paris, 1989, vol. I, no. 95 (other casts illustrated, pp. 114-117).

拍品專文

While living in Brussels in 1876, Rodin began work on a sculpture he felt would form a modern counterpart to the classical expression he saw in the works of Donatello and Michelangelo during a recent trip to Italy.

He chose a soldier, Auguste Neydte, as his model. Rodin analyzed the forms of Neydte's lean, athletic physique with the objectivity he admired in the Renaissance masters, and at the same time infused his subject with a natural emotional expression. He exhibited the sculpture in Brussels in 1877 as Le Vaincu, and later that year as L'age d'airain in the Paris Salon. Critics accused him of modeling directly from the human body. A committee of inquiry was set up, and after taking the evidence of sculptors who had seen Rodin at work, they ruled in Rodin's favor.