The Shade (sculpture)
The Shade, The Slave or The Titan[2] is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, 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 Shade | |
|---|---|
_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 |
| Year | c.1880 (conception) |
| Medium | plaster / bronze |
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.
References
- Informational sign, Musée Rodin
- (in French) Grappe, Georges (1944). Catalogue du Musée Rodin. I-Hôtel Biron (5th edition). Musée Rodin. p. [338d], no.57.
- (in Spanish) Museo Soumaya, t. II. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. 2015. pp. 90-91.
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