| The Old Tree | |
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 Bronze cast of the sculpture | |
| Artist | Auguste Rodin |
| Year | 1885 |
The Old Tree is a plaster sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally conceived as part of his The Gates of Hell project. [1]
| The Old Tree | |
|---|---|
| Bronze cast of the sculpture | |
| Artist | Auguste Rodin |
| Year | 1885 |
The Old Tree is a plaster sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally conceived as part of his The Gates of Hell project. [1]
Rodin produced it in 1885, only a year after the formation of the Salon des Independents. It measures 39.3 cm × 38.4 cm × 27 cm (15.5 in × 15.1 in × 10.6 in) and shows a nude young woman clinging to an old man holding his arms out like a tree, contrasting several opposites - male and female, youth and age, softness and roughness.
The work was cast from the plaster original by Georges Rudier's studio in black and green patina bronze. The bronze was exhibited in 1900 in the Pavilion de l'Alma and the La Plume salon - in La Revue Blanche, Felicien Fagus wrote:
At once human, animal and vegetable ... hairy and cracked, with branches and leaves, in which we can recognise Mercury and a small, wild and familiar woodland deity, who is none other than Little Fauna, and far from mythological themes, [Rodin] sees the symbol of an absolute faith in nature as the very substance of life. [2]
The Martyr or The Little Martyr is a c.1885 plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping female figure by Auguste Rodin, now in the Musee Rodin.
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Suzon is an early bust of a woman by Auguste Rodin, created between 1872 and 1873 when he wholly worked on commissions. It was inspired by late 18th century Romantic works whilst Rodin was in exile in Brussels due to the Franco-Prussian War. He created it in homage to Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, another sculptor also in exile there who was highly influential on Rodin's early works.
Torso of Adele is an 1878-1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally modelled in plaster before being worked in terracotta.
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