Chalk on paper
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Auguste Rodin
Presented by George Bernard Shaw through the Art Fund 1910
paper unique chalk
24 November 2018 – 21 April 2019
2019-04-21
24 November 2018 – 21 April 2019
2019-04-21
2018-11-24
Wolsey Art Gallery (Ipswich, UK)
2018-11-24
Rodin's The Kiss
Loan-out
Auguste Rodin
support: 368 × 311 mm
Presented by George Bernard Shaw through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1910
<p><b>N02683</b> AUGUSTE RODIN 1906</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘W.R.’ 06' c.r.
<br/>Red chalk, 14 1/2×12 1/4 (37×31).
<br/>Presented by George Bernard Shaw through the National Art-Collections Fund 1910.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Probably given by the artist to the donor <i>c</i>. 1906.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Carfax Gallery, March 1907 (31).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> John Rothenstein, <i>The Portrait Drawings of William Rothenstein</i>, 1926, p.25; Speaight, 1962, pp.120–1, 197.</p>
<p>The artist was first introduced to the French <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a> Rodin (1840–1917) by Legros, was invited to stay at Meudon and made several <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithographs</span></a> of him in 1897. In <i>Men and Memories</i>, II, p.108, he quotes a letter dated 26 April 1906 from Rainer Maria Rilke, inviting him to visit Rodin who was then at work on a bust of Bernard Shaw. <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rothenstein-auguste-rodin-n02683" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02683</span></a> evidently dates from that occasion. A more finished drawing of the same profile is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (repr. <i>op. cit.</i>, facing p.48), and a third is in the Art Institute of Chicago.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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