The Shade (sculpture)
Sculpture by Auguste Rodin
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The Shade, The Slave or The Titan[2] is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin.
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| The Shade | |
|---|---|
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 |
Evolution
The sculpture was 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 original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and The Three Shades.
