The Shade (sculpture)

The Shade
Artist Auguste Rodin
Year c.1880 (conception) / 1967 (casting)
Medium Plaster / bronze

The Shade, The Slave or The Titan[1] is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived around 1880. The figure was later used in triplicate for his The Three Shades, itself part of The Gates of Hell.[2] 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.

The individual figure was cast by the Rudier Foundry in bronze with a black and green patina in 1967 - one of that edition is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City.

References

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