Avarice and Lust | |
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French: La luxure et l'avarice | |
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Artist | Auguste Rodin |
Year | 1885 |
Type | sculpture |
Medium | Bronze |
Location | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires |
Avarice and Lust is a sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived between 1885 and 1887, representing two of the seven capital sins and is part of his sculptural group The Gates of Hell , [1] where it can be found in the lower part of the right door. [2] It's possible that the name was inspired by Victor Hugo's poem Après une lecture du Dante: [1]
Et la luxure immonde, et l'avarice infâme, | And filthy lust, and shameful greed: |
—Victor Hugo, from Les Voix intérieures | —James Johnson |
The piece is made of several parts: the torso of a falling man, whose extremely long arms encircle a woman who is partially covering her face, while he is reaching for some coins. He represents greed. His body is made up with the torso from The Falling Man , with the arms in a different position, a new head and hair. [2] Lust is represented with the female figure offering her body, based on an 1888 drawing by Rodin, titled Skeleton embracing a woman. [5]