Auguste Rodin

Musée Rodin, Paris
Private collects ion, California
Replica Handbags Gallery, New Orleans
Acquired from the above in 1989

Rodin, The B. Gerald Cantor collects ion (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, no. 68, illustration of another cast p. 150
Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel (exhibition catalogue), Fondation Basil & Elise Goulandris, Musée d'art contemporain, Andros, 1997, no. 57, illustration of another cast n.p.
John L. Tancock, Rodin in Mexico, collects ion of European Sculpture from the XIX and XX Centuries (exhibition catalogue), Museo Soumaya, Mexico City, 1997, no. 86, illustration of another cast n.p.
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, illustration of another cast p. 252

This work is in very good condition. It features a mottled green and brown patina with minor surface dirt and signs of rubbings throughout, consistent with age.
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To depict the darker side of human expression, Rodin studied cadavers and patients in psychiatric wards, and to depict creativity he modeled the hands of musicians and fellow artists. His ability to convey the explosive emotion of the human form is seen in small scale in the graceful, delicate touch of these hands.