Auguste Rodin French, 1840-1917
Torso Morhardt, 1999-2000
Bronze
39 x 30 x 21 cm
This work is part of our collection of posthumous August Rodin bronze sculptures. These bronzes are casts from original foundry plasters and part of a limited edition, each numbered.
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
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This fragmentary figure preserves in its title one of Rodin’s most important friendships. The sculptor met Mathias Morhardt in 1888, and for the next decade, the young Swiss critic and...
This fragmentary figure preserves in its title one of Rodin’s most important friendships. The sculptor met Mathias Morhardt in 1888, and for the next decade, the young Swiss critic and poet was one of Rodin’s most adroit and steadfast defenders. The title probably records a gift of the sculpture to Morhardt, possibly after his successful intervention with the Balzac committee in 1894. Photographs of Rodin’s studio, usually dated about 1890, record a plaster of this subject.