Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose
Modeled 1863-64, Musée Rodin cast number 12/12 in 1979, Coubertin Foundry
Bronze
18 1/4 x 7 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection
“That mask determined all my future work. It is the first good piece of modeling I ever did. From that time I sought to look all around my work, to draw it well in every respect. I have kept that mask before my mind in everything I have done. I have never succeeded in making a figure as good as “The Broken Nose.”
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.)
