Ugolino and Sons
Modeled 1881-82, cast number 2, date of cast and foundry unknown
Bronze
16 1/8 x 16 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, promised gift to the North Carolina Museum of Art
“It is true when a literary subject is so well known the artist can treat it and yet expect to be understood. Yet it is better, in my opinion, that the works of painters and sculptors should contain all their interest themselves. Art can offer thought and imagination without recourse to literature. Instead of illustrating scenes from poems, it need only use plain symbols which do not require any written text. Such has generally been my own method.”
Paul Gsell, Art by Auguste Rodin, originally published in 1912. Translated by Mrs. Romilly Fedden.
