Fugit Amor

细节

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Fugit Amor
signed 'A.Rodin' (on the front of the base) and inscribed with the foundry mark 'L. Perzinka Fondeur Versailles' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.)
Length: 17 3/4 in. (45 cm.)
Conceived before 1887; this bronze cast by the Perzinka foundry in 1899

来源

Marie Souvestre, London, a gift from the artist in July 1899.
Dorothy Bussy (neé Strachey), Roquebrune, by descent from the above in 1905, and thence by descent to the present owner circa 1960.

出版

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1926, no. 233 (marble version illustrated p. 93).
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 90 (marble version illustrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 91.
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, p. 61 (another cast illustrated).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, nos. 20-24, p. 203 (another cast illustrated).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckles Collection, San Francisco, 1977, no. 25, p. 164
(another cast illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, Paris, 1980, no. 33 (another cast illustrated).
R. Crone & S. Salzmann, (ed.), Rodin, Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, fig. 13 (another cast illustrated p. 199).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. II, Paris, 2007, no. S. 598, p. 378 (another cast illustrated).

展览

London, Arts Council Exhibition, Rodin, 1970, no. 22.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Rodin, September 2006 - January 2007, no. 113, p. 233 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, February - May 2007.

拍场告示

Please note, this bronze was cast in 1899. The provenance should read:
Marie Souvestre, London, a gift from the artist in July 1899.
Dorothy Bussy (neé Strachey), Roquebrune, by descent from the above in 1905, and thence by descent to the present owner circa 1960.

荣誉呈献

Michelle McMullan

MMcmullan@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2137

拍品专文

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2018-3489B.

In Fugit amor, originally conceived for La Porte de l'Enfer, two figures desperately strive but fail to embrace, embodying the eternal damnation of Paolo and Francesca, the doomed lovers from Canto V of Dante's Inferno. “Propelled by the presumably harsh winds of Hell’s second circles, these two figures, however much they strain toward one another, never connect, for they are not meant to…That they are eternally arrested in this extraordinary alignment makes their struggle all the more poignant and illustrative of the banal axiom that, the more one attempts to grasp something, the more it surreptitiously slips away” (G. Danto, R. Crone & S. Salzmann, ed., Rodin: Eros and Creativity, Munich, 1992, pp. 198-99). Rodin’s style is uniquely poised to capture the helplessness of these figures, and Fugit amor is a poignant example of Rodin’s attention to human pain and suffering.

Fugit Amor

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