Auguste Rodin: Sculpture 'The Thinker' (38 cm), bronze version
€2,380.00
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23905872849
Product information "Auguste Rodin: Sculpture 'The Thinker' (38 cm), bronze version"
Rodin saw himself as a creative giant, and his thinker also reveals a trait of the greatest sculptor of his era. His long preoccupation with Dante had caused him existential angst; he developed ideas of a heaven and a hell whose boundaries were indeterminable. In 1880, he received a state commission for a monumental portal for the Musée des Arts décoratifs - his 'Gates of Hell', developed from Dante's 'Inferno', whose 186 dramatic and dynamic figures occupied him to the end. He left some of the figures designed for the gate free. This includes the 'Thinker', powerfully modelled with swelling muscles and immobile, closed limbs, who ponders the tragic fate of humanity under intense tension. The form developed for the play of light and shadow is simplified, the figure lifted out of time into a universal state. Through such expressive vehemence, Rodin became the greatest inspiration of modernism, and one of the 40 authentic 70 cm high bronze examples of the 'Thinker' last realised a sale price of 10.7 million dollars at an auction at Christie's in Paris in 2022.Original: Musée Rodin, Paris. Created in 1880, signed in the mould. Museum replica. Version in fine bronze, cast using the lost mould technique. Finely patinated and polished. Height 38 cm, on a diabase base. Size of the base 20 x 3 x 13 cm (W/H/D).
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