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Auguste Rodin
Bending to the Right Nude Male Seen from Behind
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provenance: Probably Auguste Beuret (1866 – 1934), artist’s son, Paris; Loïe Fuller (1869 – 1928), Paris; Jean et Paule Cailac, Paris; Private collection, Paris;
size: 104 x 70 mm, 4 1/16 x 2 3/4 in.,
bibliography: Christina Buley-Uribe, Catalogue raisonné des dessins et peintures d’Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), to be published, n° 180311
Description
The present study as well as the other drawings of the album representing energetic runners, suspended characters, slender figures, and dynamic skaters, were made to jut out of the frontal structure of the Gates of Hell . These drawings are significant in Rodin’s work of the 1880s. They belong to an iconography of small Mercury and Sprite similar to the drawings Rodin selected for the
figures illustrating the ShadesGoupil Album, that peopled the underground world. Some are published in 1897.
Other drawings from this group representing horsemen, centaurs and horse races relate to Ovid’s used as a source for his
women which were to frame the bas-relief heads of the. Rodin referred to them when he was making groups of centaurs abducting, a text Rodin also Gates Metamorphoses (Weepers).
Pleureuses
One must imagine that all these drawings, as small as they are, were cut out and carefully brought together by Rodin in albums which are today disassembled. They were originally taken from sketchbooks, always close to hand, veritable “traveling portable studios” as Donat Rütman appropriately named them. The album from which our sketches originate was most probably made for the Gates of Hell.
Additional information
| provenance: | Probably Auguste Beuret (1866 – 1934), artist’s son, Paris; |
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| size: | 104 x 70 mm, 4 1/16 x 2 3/4 in., |
| bibliography: | Christina Buley-Uribe, Catalogue raisonné des dessins et peintures d’Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), to be published, n° 180311 |
