Auguste Rodin

Gift of The B. G. Cantor Art Foundation

Balzac in a Frock Coat http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81716

Sixth casting, inventory No.1022 Throughout his career, Rodin created sculptures of the fragmented human body. He had an extraordinary ability to employ the power of gesture to convey deep emotions and used his skill to express these gestures in sculpture. Rodin had a lifelong fascination with cathedrals, and the shape of the converging hands here alludes to the pointed arches of a Gothic church. Besides expressing calmness, faith and protection, it is interesting that the linked hands presumably come from different bodies.

The Cathedral https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4194/

Gift of The B. G. Cantor Art Foundation

Naked Balzac with Folded Arms http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81718

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923

"Avec des gestes lents et charmants, Clara lissa l'or roux de ses cheveux..." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/369691

Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893

St. John the Baptist https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/187569

The Thinker

The Thinker https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/the-thinker-1902-1

Jean d’Aire

Jean d’Aire https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/15267/

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Iris, Messenger of the Gods (Another Voice, Called Iris) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/232261

Two Figures

Two Figures https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.989

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/untitled

Portrait of Camille Claudel with a Bonnet

Portrait of Camille Claudel with a Bonnet https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/portrait-of-camille-claudel-with-a-bonnet-1886

Danaid

Danaid https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/danaid

Monumental Bust of Victor Hugo

Monumental Bust of Victor Hugo https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112017

The Clenched Hand

The Clenched Hand https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/2389/

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Straus

Reclining Nude https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298304

Reclining Nude, Forshortened

Reclining Nude, Forshortened https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/49673

The Thinker

The Thinker https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/the-thinker-2

On black (marble? lucite?) base Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard and Louise Haskell Daly Funds

Dance Movement I https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/228095

Gift of The Cantor, Fitzgerald Collection

Bust http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81469

Auguste Rodin’s powerfully expressive figure of Adam was originally intended to be paired with a sculpture of Eve, flanking a sculptured bronze portal commissioned by the French government for the Musée de Arts Décoratifs, Paris. For this monumental undertaking, which he entitled The Gates of Hell, Rodin turned to past Italian masters. Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome (1508–12) inspired the pose of Rodin’s subject. Rodin rotated Michelangelo’s reclining Adam and transferred the frescoed figure’s gesture of receiving life from God to the sculpture’s right arm. The exaggerated turn of Adam’s left arm comes from Michelangelo’s sculpture of the dead Christ in his Pietà (1548–55; Museo del Duomo, Florence). Rodin chose the portal’s theme from Dante’s fourteenth-century epic poem Inferno; here Adam’s agonized body strikingly conveys the sufferings caused by original sin. Although the museum building was never constructed and the portal was not completed as originally conceived, Rodin explored the expressive potential of the human body as few artists before him had dared. As independent statues, Adam and Eve are among the commission’s numerous progeny. Not until 1938 was the gate cast in bronze and placed at the entrance to the grounds of the Musée Rodin, Paris. Gift of Robert Allerton

Adam https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11320/

Small Head with Turned-Up Nose (Petite Tête au nez retroussé)

Small Head with Turned-Up Nose (Petite Tête au nez retroussé) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/111455

Suzon

Suzon https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112019

Albert-Ernest Carrie-Belleuse

Albert-Ernest Carrie-Belleuse https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/albert-ernest-carrie-belleuse

Despair

Despair https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/25391/

The Gates of Hell

The Gates of Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/the-gates-of-hell

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Recumbent Female Nude https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/312363

Cybele, large model (Cybèle, grand modèle)

Cybele, large model (Cybèle, grand modèle) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112744

Bust of Bellone

Bust of Bellone https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/84774

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/untitled-1905

Iris Waking a Nymph (Iris éveillant une nymphe)

Iris Waking a Nymph (Iris éveillant une nymphe) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4864