Paolo and Francesca
Modeled 1889, Musée Rodin cast number 5 in 1983, Georges Rudier Foundry
Bronze
12 …›x 22 ¼ x 14 ¾ inches
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection
“Instead of imagining the different parts of a body as more or less flat, I represented them as projectures of interior volumes. I forced myself to express in each swelling of the torso or of the limbs the efflorescence of a muscle or of a bone which lay deep beneath the skin. And so the truth of my figures, instead of being merely superficial, seems to blossom from within to the outside, like life itself.”
Paul Gsell, Art by Auguste Rodin, originally published in 1912. Translated by Mrs. Romilly Fedden.
