L'TERNAL PRINTEMPS . GIANT RODIN  . SOLD

L'TERNAL PRINTEMPS . GIANT RODIN . SOLD

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BRONZE SCULPTURE AFTER AUGUSTE RODIN . 70 CM H 


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THE SCULPTURE IS A  LARGE SCALE BRONZE REPRODUCTION AFTER AUGUSTE RODIN'S MADE IN 1884 . BASE BLACK MARBLE 

 

THE HISTORY .

The ETERNAL SPRINGTIME sculpture ( French,  >  L'ÉTERNAL PRINTEMPS is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist AUGUSTE RODIN.

   -    depicting a pair of lovers. It was created at the same time as THE GATES OF HELL and originally intended to be part of it.

Rodin originally conceived of Eternal Springtime as part of THE GATES OF HELL, but did not include it because the happiness expressed by the lovers did not seem appropriate to the theme. THE KISS another famous sculpture by the artist, shares the same origin, but unlike THE KISS , in ETERNAL SPRINGTIMES the man dominates the composition, sustaining the arching body of his lover that joins him in a passionate kiss.

Rodin took the woman's torso, with its arched pose, from the TORSO OF ADELE that appears in the upper left corner of the TYMPANUM on THE GATES OF HELL  -  the model was Adele ADELE ABRUZZESI, originally from Italy. However, at the time of his creation of ETERNAL SPRINGTIME, he was in a romantic relationship with CAMILLE CLAUDEL, and REINE-MARIE PARIS, the granddaughter of CLAUDEL's brother PAUL CLAUDEL, has suggested that traces of her can be discerned in the woman of this piece and in other female figures prominent in works he created in the mid-1880s.

The work was reproduced several times in bronze and marble. A marble version dating to c. 1901 was sold at auction in May 2016 for a then record-breaking 20 million USD