The International Studio Volume 49 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...and defects, as well as qualities and perfections. His female figures are not always Junoesque in proportion, and his Bather, for instance, has hands and feet and ankle suggesting a heavy and ungainly peasant girl rather than a nymph or watersprite. However, "one cannot please everybody and one's wife in the bargain." Rodin is "wedded to his art," and the likes and dislikes of the public, now that he has "arrived," leave him unmoved. Since L'Homme au Xez Casse, he has given to the world some fifty finished pieces of sculpture, and his atelier at Meudon is filled with over a hundred "studies," many fit to figure as exhibit pieces. Actual examples of Rodin's art now in this country include a splendid collection donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas F. Ryan and others and comprising the following pieces: La Belle Qui Fut Heaulmiere, bronze statuette; The Thinkers, bronze statuette; Adam, bronze statuette; Eve, bronze statue; portrait busts, bronze of Puvis de Chavannts and Jules Dalou; The Tempest, marble relief; The Bather, marble statue; portrait bust of Mme. X, marble; The Age of Brass, a replica, bronze; St. John the Baptist, a replica bronze; Brother and Sister, a replica, bronze; Pygmalion and Galatea, marble group; Orpheus and Eurydice, marble group; The Hand oj God, marble group; The Caryatid, baked clay; Head of Balzac, baked clay, study; Triton and Xereid, baked clay; and eighteen signed plaster casts made from various small clay studies, and presented to the Museum by Rodin himself. Another very powerful statue, representing Eve in the anguished moment immediately following her expulsion from the garden, is soon to le added to this collection. It is a life-size figure, depicting the lowest depth ...