Tragic Muse
Modeled 1894-96, Musée Rodin cast number 5/8 in 1986, Godard Foundry
Bronze
13 x 25 ½ x 15 ¼ inches
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
“Yes, the great artist, and by this I mean the poet as well as the painter and the sculptor, finds even in suffering, in the death of loved ones, in the treachery of friends, something which fills him with a voluptuous though tragic admiration. At times his own heart is on the rack, yet stronger than his pain is the bitter joy which he experiences in understanding and giving expression to that pain.”
Paul Gsell, Art by Auguste Rodin, originally published in 1912. Translated by Mrs. Romilly Fedden.
