Sorrow
Modeled 1889, Musée Rodin cast number III/IV in 1983, Coubertin Foundry
Bronze
11 ½ x 6 ½ x 6 ¾ inches
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, promised gift to the North Carolina Museum of Art
“In a human body, the contour is given by the place where the body ends; thus it is the body which makes the shape. I place the model so that light, outlining it against a background, illuminates the contour. I execute it, I change my position and that of my model, and thus I see another contour, and so on successively all around the body.”
Henri Charles Etienne Dujardin-Beaumetz, Entretiens avec Rodin (Rodin’s Reflections on Art), originally published 1914. Translated by Ann McGarrell. (From the collection Auguste Rodin, Readings on His Life and Works, edited by Albert Elsen, 1965.)
