RODIN, Auguste

Paris 1840 - Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine 1917

Maker: Rudier, Georges

Les Ombres

The Three Shades [Museum's Title: The Three Shades, or Spirits of Despair, or Three Despairing Ones, or The Three Phantoms, or The Vanquished]

modeled before 1886, cast 1978

bronze 8/12 ; sand cast [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]

group

Dimensions (HxWxD): 38 ¹⁄₂ x 35 ¹⁄₂ x 17 ³⁄₄ ; weight: 286.60 Ib [archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]

signed on front of base, left: A. Rodin
inscribed on back of base, left: Georges Rudier / Fondeur Paris
below signature: No. 8
on base, right side, near back: © by Musée Rodin 1978

Acc. No.: 1998.360

Credit Line: Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, 1998.360

Photo credit: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Stanford, California, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University

museum.stanford.edu

Provenance

• 1977, December 23, Commissioned by the Musée Rodin, Paris [D14 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1978, October 2, Invoice date [D13, D9 RE15 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1978, October 4, Delivery date [1E11.2 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1978, December 12, Private Collection [ACHD111, ACHD125, D9 RE15 archives, Musée Rodin, Paris]
• 1998, Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection

Bibliography

• Museum's website, May 12, 2015
• 2003 Elsen and Jamison
  Albert E. Elsen, with Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin's Art. The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Edited by Bernard Barryte, with photographs by Frank Wing, [Stanford and New York], The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in association with Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 193-196, n° 43
• 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, vol. 2, pp.564-574, Les Ombres, avant 1886, cet exemplaire est cité p.564 : "Six exemplaires, fonte Georges Rudier [...] n°8, 1978, Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center, don Iris et B. Gerald Cantor, 1998"
• 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, vol. 2, pp.564-574, The Three Shades, before 1886, this copy is mentioned p.564: "Six casts by Georges Rudier [...] no.8, 1978, Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center, gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, 1998"
• 2017 Blanchetière
  François Blanchetière, L’Enfer selon Rodin, éditions du musée Rodin, édition Norma, Paris, 2017, cat. 33

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