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Nu (Renoir)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nu (Nude) s.d. Oil on canvas, 113.2 x 85.3 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone

Baigneuse (1887)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse (Bather) 1887 Oil on canvas, 81.9 x 53 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone

Le Penseur (1903)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Penseur (The Thinker) 1903 Bronze, 189 x 98 x 140 cm Musée Rodin, Paris Created in 1880 in its original size, approximately 70 cm, to adorn the tympanum of The Gates of Hell, The Thinker was then…

Adam (1880-1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Adam modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 194 × 77.2 × 82.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Auguste Rodin’s first commission from the French government, The Gates of Hell, was intended to be the portal…

Eve (1881)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve modeled 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 174 × 52.1 × 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin intended Eve and the towering Adam to flank his monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell. There, the biblical…

L’Âge d’airain (1876)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…

Le Baiser (c.1882)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) c.1882 Marble, 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm Musée Rodin, Paris Commissioned by the French state in 1888, carved between 1888 and 1898. Joined the collections of the Musée du Luxembourg in 1901; transferred…