AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Etude pour Eve au pillier

signed, numbered and inscribed on the left side 'A. Rodin No. 11 by musée Rodin 1978', inscribed on the back of the base '.Georges.Rudier.Fondeur. Paris.'--bronze with dark brown patina Height: 16½in. (42cm.)
Original plaster version executed 1878-1880; this bronze version cast in 1978, number 11 in an edition of 12

来源

Musée Rodin, Paris
Dominion Gallery, Montreal

出版

J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 148-157, no. 8-4 (another cast illustrated, p. 153)

拍品专文

In 1880 Rodin proposed to flank the Gates of Hell with monumental figures of Adam and Eve. Adam was nearly complete when he began work on Eve, exhibiting a half life-size version of it in London in 1883. It was not until 1899 that the sculptor displayed the life-size Eve at the Paris Salon.

The present sculpture is a study for Eve which Rodin used again in 1912-1913, together with a figure of Adam, in the preliminary design for a fireplace. In contrast to the later version of Eve, the present sculpture is elongated and more exaggerated in its movement.