List of The Thinker sculptures

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The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia The Thinker Rodin Phila.JPG
The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia

This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker , originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell , exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable versions are those created under his supervision. There was also a limited edition of 12 copies made from the original plaster mold by the Musée Rodin after Rodin's death.

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The Thinker exists as bronze casts, exhibition plaster casts (some were painted to look like bronze patina), and original production plasters, which some consider art objects today.

Copies of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime

LocationImageSizeMaterialDateNotesReferences
National Gallery of Victoria OriginalBronze1884Earliest bronze casting, has Florentine cap [1]
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, GenevaOriginalBronze1896 [2]
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.OriginalBronze1901 [3]
Panthéon, Latin Quarter, Paris (destroyed)MonumentalPlaster, bronze-tinted1904Earliest monumental. The statue was vandalized and later scrapped. [4]
The Burrell Collection The Thinker statue, bronze, 1880 CE, by Auguste Rodin. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland.jpg OriginalBronze1902Bought by Mr. Burrell in 1922. Many fingerprints and marks were left by the sculptor. [5] [6]
University of Louisville Grawhallul.jpg MonumentalBronze1903First casting by A. A. Hébrard, lost wax technique, displayed at Louisiana Purchase Exposition [4] [7]
Commissioned by Max Linde in 1903. Today Detroit Institute of Arts MonumentalBronze1903First casting by Alexis Rudier, sand casting, four days younger than Louisville copy,
publicly displayed at Leipzig and Berlin		 [8] [9]
Metropolitan Museum, New York MonumentalPlaster, bronze-tinted1904Sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis to replace the bronze version [4]
Musée Rodin, Paris MonumentalBronze1904Installed outside Paris Panthéon in 1906, moved to Musée Rodin garden in 1922 [10]
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek MonumentalBronze1904the "third Hébrard copy" [11] [4]
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden MonumentalPlaster1904acquired by museum in October 1904 [4]
National Museum, Poznań MonumentalPlaster1904acquired in January 1905 [4] [12]
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rodin-Le Penseur-Strasbourg.jpg MonumentalPlaster1904purchased from the artist in 1907 [13]
Legion of Honor, San FranciscoMonumentalBronze1904Alexis Rudier cast, purchased in 1915, donated to San Francisco in 1922 [14]
Private collection, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts OriginalBronze1906made for Ralph Pulitzer, sold for $15.3 million in 2013[ citation needed ]
Laeken Cemetery, Brussels Rodin The Thinker Laeken cemetery.jpg MonumentalBronze1906Alexis Rudier cast, installed on the grave of Jef Dillen in 1927 [4] [15] [16]
Ca' Pesaro, VeniceMonumentalPlaster, bronze-tinted1907purchased at the 1907 Biennale [17]
Congressional Plaza, Buenos AiresMonumentalBronze1907Purchased by the museum director to Auguste Rodin, one of the three sculptures cast in the original mold and signed by him [18] [19] [20]
Waldemarsudde, SwedenMonumentalBronze1908Alexis Rudier cast, for Prince Eugen of Norway and Sweden [21]
Private collectionOriginalBronze1916sold for $11.8 million in 2010 [22] [23]
Rodin's tomb, Meudon MonumentalBronze1916Alexis Rudier cast, placed at the grave when his wife died [4]
Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art - damaged Thinker.jpg MonumentalBronze1916Alexis Rudier cast, purchased 1916, damaged in 1970 and remains unrepaired. According to police, the perpetrators were a faction of the Weathermen, possibly the same individuals killed in a bomb-making accident in New York City, [11] although police never charged anyone in the bombing. [11] [24] [25]
Musée Rodin at MeudonMonumentalPlaster, bronze-tinted1916the museum has several plaster casts in different sizes and of different ages [26]

Later casts

Europe

North America

The Thinker in front of Philosophy Hall at Columbia University "The Thinker" statue at Columbia University IMG 0936.JPG
The Thinker in front of Philosophy Hall at Columbia University

South America

Asia

The Thinker in NTHU, Taiwan The Thinker in NTHU Taiwan.jpg
The Thinker in NTHU, Taiwan

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