The_Shade_(sculpture)

<i>The Shade</i> (sculpture)

The Shade (sculpture)

Sculpture by Auguste Rodin

The Shade, The Slave or The Titan[2] is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin.

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Evolution

The sculpture was conceived around 1880 and used in triplicate as a part of the artist's large-scale work The Gates of Hell.[1][3] It evolved into both the full size sculpture The Three Shades, and a separate sculpture of a single figure, The Shade.

The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and The Three Shades.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Informational sign, Musée Rodin
  2. [2]
    (in French) Grappe, Georges (1944). Catalogue du Musée Rodin. I-Hôtel Biron (5th edition). Musée Rodin. p. [338d], no.57.
  3. [3]
    (in Spanish) Museo Soumaya, t. II. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. 2015. pp. 90-91.


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