Pastel on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-tonks-2055" aria-label="More by Henry Tonks" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Tonks</a>
Auguste Rodin
Presented by Viscount D'Abernon through the Contemporary Art Society 1915
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, sculptor
arts and entertainment
beard
body
chair
domestic
furnishings
government and politics
hand / hands on hip
individuals: male
interior - non-specific
interiors
man, old
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
refugee
Rodin, Auguste
sitting
society
work and occupations
paper unique pastel
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: 537 × 400 mm
frame: 655 × 575 × 25 mm
Presented by Viscount D'Abernon through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1915
<p><b>N03017</b> AUGUSTE RODIN 1914
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pastel, 21 1/8×15 3/4 (53·5×40).
<br/>Presented by Viscount D'Abernon through the Contemporary Art Society 1915.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., winter 1914 (166).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Hone, 1939, p.113.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, CXIII, 1937, p.87.</p>
<p>This and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tonks-madame-rodin-n03018" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03018</span></a> were done in the early weeks of the First World War, when the Rodins were staying as refugees with Mr and Mrs Charles Hunter at Hill Hall, near Epping. Hone writes that ‘the likenesses were good; but Tonks did not disguise his disappointment with Rodin. “Why I have never heard him say anything except ‘Dieu, que les arbres sont beaux’.”’ Rodin was then in his seventy-third year and had become a little senile.</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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2004-07-16T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults artist, sculptor arts and entertainment beard body chair domestic furnishings government and politics hand / hands on hip individuals: male interior - non-specific interiors man, old named individuals objects people portraits refugee Rodin, Auguste sitting society work and occupations