The Three Shades

Auguste Rodin French
 Cast by Georges Rudier French

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The Shades are three separate casts of the same figure that has been rotated into different positions. Each is a small version of the monumental bronze Adam (11.173.1) that Rodin once planned to place at one side of The Gates of Hell. In the final version of The Gates, the Shades stood above the center of the lintel and personify the dead. The chocolate brown color of this group reveals its identity as a modern cast. Bronzes made before Rodin’s death in 1917 generally were patinated almost black and flecked with green, as is seen in the lifetime casts of Adam, Eve (11.173.2) and the Thinker (11.173.9).

The Three Shades, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), Bronze, French

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The Three Shades, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), Bronze, French
The Three Shades, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840–1917 Meudon), Bronze, French

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