Torso of the Walking Man
Modeled 1878-79, Musée Rodin cast number 10/12 in 1979, Coubertin Foundry
Bronze
20 ½ x 10 ¾ x 8 inches
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
“A well-made torso contains all of life. One doesn’t add anything by joining arms and legs to it. My morceaux
[“piecesâ€] are the examples that I propose for the study of other artists. They are not finished, it is said. And the cathedrals, are they finished?”
Truman H. Bartlett, Auguste Rodin, Sculptor, The American Architect and Building News, XXV (1889), No. 689. (From the collection Auguste Rodin, Readings on His Life and Works, edited by Albert Elsen, 1965.)
