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Eve
1883

About the Item

Auguste Rodin Eve 6/24 1883, Cast later 68 cm. Round Base Signed Masters Limited Foundry Edition Gruppo Mondiale Est Certificate from Master Limited Edition, Gruppo Mondiale Recent NEWS : Auguste Rodin Mignon (Rose Beuret) Bronze Bust sold March, 12, 2025 for $115,900 12 3/8" W x 9 1/4" D x 16 3/8" H, bronze only 21 3/8" H, bronze with marble base, overall Signed A. Rodin, Rudier Foundry mark Provenance: Private Collection, Connecticut To pose for the figure of Eve, Rodin enlisted a sensuous, young Italian woman, possibly Adèle Abbruzzesi or her sister Maria. “[She] had sunburned skin, warm, with the bronze reflections of the women of sunny lands,” Rodin recounted. “Her movements were quick and feline, with the lissomeness and grace of a panther; all the strength and splendor of muscular beauty, and that perfect equilibrium, that simplicity of bearing which makes great gesture” (quoted in A.E. Elsen, Rodin’s Art, Oxford, 2003, p. 190). Midway through Rodin’s work on Eve, however, the young woman became pregnant and stopped coming to pose; the sculptor was forced to suspend his labors on the life-sized statue with parts of the surface—the abdomen, in particular—still rough and uneven. “Without knowing why, I saw my model changing,” he recalled. “I modified my contours, naively following the successive transformations of ever-amplifying forms. One day, I learned she was pregnant; then I understood... It certainly hadn’t occurred to me to take a pregnant woman as my model for Eve; an accident—happy for me—gave her to me, and it aided the character of the figure singularly. But soon, becoming more sensitive, my model found the studio too cold; she came less frequently, then not at all” (quoted in ibid., p. 190). Rather than abandoning the figure entirely, Rodin decided to re-conceive his Eve at half-scale. In keeping with his working practice at the time, he modeled and finished the sculpture very precisely, highlighting the sensuality of the forms. The Petite Eve proved extremely popular with contemporary collectors, who found it hard to resist the statue’s seductive power, and by the end of the century Rodin had authorized the creation of as many as eight bronzes and fifteen marbles.

Creation Year:
1883
Dimensions:
Height: 26.7 in (67.82 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)
Medium:
Bronze
Movement & Style:
Impressionist
After:
Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917, French)
Period:
1880-1889
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1977215510852

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