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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Walking Man
    Auguste Rodin. The Walking Man, Modeled 1877–1900, cast before 1917. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001875

    The Walking Man

    by Auguste Rodin

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed in model on base: A Rodin; signature plate welded under base

    Provenance

    A. James Speyer (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1987.

    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

    Publications

    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).

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917)
    Date
    Modeled 1877–1900, cast before 1917
    Medium
    Bronze
    Dimensions
    H.: 84.1 cm (33 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    statuette
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Bequest of A. James Speyer
    Accession no.
    1987.217

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