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A Rodin work with a verified history sold for US$4.8 million in 1999, [117] and Rodin's bronze Ève, grand modele – version sans rocher sold for $18.9 million at a 2008 Christie's auction in New York. [118]
Rodin was not initially considered for the work because at that point in time, around 1885, his career had not become as prominent. After the death of Chapu, the recently elected president of the Societé, Émile Zola strongly supported Rodin for the job and, so, the artist submitted a proposal to have a completed three-meter statue of the ...
Musée Rodin, Paris 59 x 29 x 29 More images: Man with the Broken Nose [6] [7] 1863 Bronze Museo Soumaya, Mexico City 31.2 x 19 x 16.3 More images: Jeune femme et enfant [8] 1864 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 57.5 x 34 x 36 Jean-Baptiste Rodin, Père de l'artiste [9] [10] 1865 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 41 x 22.8 x 24 More images: Jeune femme ...
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The Musée Rodin (English: Rodin Museum) of Paris, France, is an art museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon , Hauts-de ...
The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right hand supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation.
To Rodin, this was nevertheless heroic, the heroism of self-sacrifice. [ 7 ] In 1895 the monument was installed in Calais on a large pedestal in front of Parc Richelieu , a public park, contrary to the sculptor's wishes, who wanted contemporary townsfolk to "almost bump into" the figures and feel solidarity with them.
This work personifies the latter part of Rodin’s career: the dynamic pose of a partial figure. Deriving much from Rodin’s earlier work St. John the Baptist Preaching, including the powerful stance, Rodin had stripped all academic associations from his figure, and instead focused on what he considered essential: the dynamic pose.