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The Walking Man
Auguste Rodin · Modeled 1877–1900, cast before 1917
Provenance
Ownership history
- A. James Speyer (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1987.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rodin: Sculptor and Storyteller," November 3, 2017 to March 4, 2018, in the Maurice and Muriel Fulton Gallery 246
Literature
Published references
- J. A. Schmoll, “Zur Genesis des Torso-Motivs und zur Deutung des fragmentarischen Stil bei Rodin,” Das Unvollendete als Kunstlerischen Form; ein Symposion (Bern: Francke, 1959), p. 131, fig. 55.
- Leo Steinberg, “Introduction,” Auguste Rodin (1840–1917): An Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings (New York: Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1963).
- Albert E. Elsen, The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture: From Rodin to 1969 (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969), pp. 18–19, no. 60.
- John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum (Philadelphia: David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), pp. 357–69.
- Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1977), pp. 78–80.
- Ruth Butler, “Rodin and the Paris Salon,” Rodin Rediscovered, edited by Albert E. Elsen (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981), pp. 38-44.
- H. W. Janson, 19th Century Sculpture (Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1985), pp. 200-02.
- Joan Vita Miller and Gary Marotta, Rodin: The B. Gerald Cantor Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), pp. 134-39.
- Michael Brenson, “Rodin’s Heroic Figures in an Analytic Age,” New York Times (August 23, 1987), p. 27-28.
- Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001).
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