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RODIN, Auguste

Paris 1840 - Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine 1917

Le Désespéré

Despairing Man

modeled c. 1880-1885, cast c. 1926

plaster

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): 12 1⁄2 x 21 1⁄2 x 15 1⁄2 in.

Acc. No.: F1929-7-120

Credit Line: Bequest of Jules E. Mastbaum, 1929

Photo credit: Rodin Museum, Philadelphia

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rodin Museum/Philadelphia Museum of Art

www.rodinmuseum.org

Provenance

  • 1926, gift of P. Jackson Higgs, New York, to Jules E. Mastbaum (P. Jackson Higgs was an art dealer with a gallery at 11 East 54th Street in New York in the 1910s and 1920s)
  • 1929, bequest of Jules E. Mastbaum

Bibliography

  • 1929 Watkins
    Fridolyn G. Watkins, Rodin Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Rodin Museum, 1929, p. 24 no. 120, as "Woman Resting on Rock"
  • 1969 Tancock
    John L. Tancock, Rodin Museum: Handbook, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969, no. 30
  • 1976 Tancock
    John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, David R. Godine, 1976, p. 238-240, p. 239, repr.
  • 2007 Le Normand-Romain (français)
    Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, avec la collaboration d'Hélène Marraud et Diane Tytgat, introductions par Dr. Ruth Butler et Mr. Régis Cusinberche, Rodin et le bronze. Catalogue des œuvres conservées au musée Rodin, 2 volumes, Paris, Musée Rodin / Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007, œuvre absente de ce catalogue
  • 2007 Le Normand-Romain (English)
    Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, with the collaboration of Hélène Marraud and Diane Tytgat, introductions by Dr. Ruth Butler and Mr. Régis Cusinberche, The Bronzes of Rodin. Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, 2 volumes, English version, Paris, Musée Rodin / Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007, work not in this catalogue

Exhibitions

  • 1926 Philadelphia
    Exhibit of the Rodin Museum of Philadelphia, Jules E. Mastbaum Foundation, Philadelphia, Sesquicentennial Exposition, 1926, no. 1734, as "Despair"