The Shade (sculpture)

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The Shade
L'Ombre (1904) by Rodin.jpg
full-size version in the garden of the Musée Rodin, cast in 1946 by Alexis Rudier from the 1904 model [1]
Artist Auguste Rodin
Yearc.1880 (conception)
Mediumplaster / bronze

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.

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References

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