List of The Thinker sculptures explained

This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable versions are those created under his supervision. There was also a limited edition of 12 copies made from the original plaster mold by the Musée Rodin after Rodin's death.

The Thinker exists as bronze casts, exhibition plaster casts (some were painted to look like bronze patina), and original production plasters, which some consider art objects today.

Copies of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime

Location ImageSize Material Date Notes References
Original Bronze 1884 Earliest bronze casting, has Florentine cap [1]
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva Original Bronze 1896 [2]
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.Original Bronze 1901 [3]
Panthéon, Latin Quarter, Paris (destroyed)Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1904 Earliest monumental. The statue was vandalized and later scrapped. [4]
Original Bronze 1902 Bought by Mr. Burrell in 1922. Many fingerprints and marks were left by the sculptor. [5] [6]
Monumental Bronze 1903 [7]
Monumental Bronze 1903 First casting by Alexis Rudier, sand casting, four days younger than Louisville copy,
publicly displayed at Leipzig and Berlin
[8] [9]
Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1904 Sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis to replace the bronze version
Monumental Bronze 1904 Installed outside Paris Panthéon in 1906, moved to Musée Rodin garden in 1922 [10]
Monumental Bronze 1904 the "third Hébrard copy"
Monumental Plaster 1904 acquired by museum in October 1904
Monumental Plaster 1904 acquired in January 1905 [11]
Monumental Plaster 1904 purchased from the artist in 1907 [12]
Legion of Honor, San FranciscoMonumental Bronze 1904 Alexis Rudier cast, purchased in 1915, donated to San Francisco in 1922 [13]
Original Bronze 1906 made for Ralph Pulitzer, sold for $15.3 million in 2013
MonumentalBronze 1906 Alexis Rudier cast, installed on the grave of Jef Dillen in 1927 [14] [15]
Ca' Pesaro, Venice Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1907 [16]
Congressional Plaza, Buenos Aires Monumental Bronze 1907 Purchased by the museum director to Auguste Rodin, one of the three sculptures cast in the original mold and signed by him [17] [18] [19]
Waldemarsudde, Sweden Monumental Bronze 1908 [20]
Private collection Original Bronze 1916 sold for $11.8 million in 2010 [21] [22]
Monumental Bronze 1916 Alexis Rudier cast, placed at the grave when his wife died
Monumental Bronze 1916 Alexis Rudier cast, purchased 1916, damaged in 1970 and remains unrepaired. According to police, the perpetrators were a faction of the Weathermen, possibly the same individuals killed in a bomb-making accident in New York City,[23] although police never charged anyone in the bombing. [24] [25]
Musée Rodin at Meudon Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1916 the museum has several plaster casts in different sizes and of different ages [26]

Later casts

Europe

North America

South America

Asia

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Two insights into Auguste Rodin's The Thinker . François . Blanchetière . David . Thurrowgood . Art Journal . National Gallery of Victoria . 2013 . 52 . 9 April 2015.
  2. Web site: Le Penseur, élément de la Porte de l'Enfer . Musées d'art et d'histoire, Genève . 9 April 2015.
  3. Web site: The Thinker (Le Penseur) . National Gallery of Art . 9 April 2015.
  4. News: Rodin's Enlarged Thinker . RODIN-WEB . 9 April 2015.
  5. Web site: The Thinker, by Rodin . The Burrell Collection . 15 November 2022.
  6. Book: Gasson . Barry . The Burrell Collection . 2010 . HarperCollins Publisher in association with Glasgow Museums . Glasgow . 978-0-902752-55-9 . 158.
  7. Web site: Fact Sheet: The Thinker at the University of Louisville . Janene . Zaccone . University of Louisville . 9 April 2012 . 9 April 2015.
  8. Web site: The Thinker . Detroit Institute of Arts . 9 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150405115740/http://www.dia.org/object-info/8098faf4-32a7-4c6e-9a97-eb81b60d9c2c.aspx . 5 April 2015 . dead .
  9. Book: Rodin. Auguste. Vor 100 Jahren: Rodin in Deutschland : eine Ausstellung des Bucerius Kunst Forums und der Skulpturensammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Musee Rodin, Paris. Kuhlemann. Michael. Forum. Bucerius Kunst. 2006. Hirmer. 978-3-7774-3025-6. 72–73. de.
  10. Web site: The Thinker . Musée Rodin . 9 April 2015.
  11. 10.1.1.124.6463 . The Digital Sculpture Project: Applying 3D Scanning Techniques for the Morphological Comparison of Sculptures . Hans . de Roos . Computer and Information Science . 9 . 23 December 2004 . 2 . 1401-9841 .
  12. Web site: Le Penseur . navigart.fr . 3 December 2002 . 13 September 2019.
  13. Web site: The Thinker . 4 May 2010 . Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco . 8 September 2023.
  14. News: Le penseur du père Lachaise Bruxellois. Le soir . 31 October 1992 . 20 February 2017.
  15. News: Les secrets de Laeken : à la découverte du " Père Lachaise " belge. L'avenir. 22 August 2015. 20 February 2017. One of the 22 copies of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime
  16. http://www.archiviodellacomunicazione.it/Sicap/opac.aspx?WEB=MuseiVE&LNG=ENG Rodin Auguste
  17. Web site: Plaza del Congreso. Sitio oficial de turismo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. 14 February 2013 .
  18. Web site: Un pensador francés sentado en la plaza del Congreso « Guía Vulevú . 12 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151222111045/http://guiavulevu.com/guia/un-toque-de-cultura/un-pensador-francs-sentado-en-la-plaza-del-congreso/ . 22 December 2015 . dead . dmy-all .
  19. Web site: www.barriada.com.ar - Mabel Crego - Estatua El Pensador de Rodin. www.barriada.com.ar. 27 April 2008 .
  20. http://www.waldemarsudde.se/samlingarna/verk-av-ovriga-konstnarer/auguste-rodin/ Auguste Rodin
  21. News: Sotheby's marks a solid night at Impressionist sale . Reuters . Christopher . Michaud . 6 May 2010 . 9 April 2015.
  22. Web site: The valuing of exceptional paintings and works of art . Labo . 2 October 2012 . Gilles Perrault . 9 April 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150626135115/http://www.gillesperrault.com/blog/en/the-valuing-of-exceptional-paintings-and-works-of-art/ . 26 June 2015 .
  23. Twenty-Five Years After the Bomb: Maintaining Cleveland's The Thinker . Journal of the American Institute for Conservation . 37 . 2 . 1998 . 173–186 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090925193028/http://206.180.235.133/jaic/articles/jaic37-02-002.html . 25 September 2009 . 10.1179/019713698806082877. Christman . Bruce .
  24. http://www.clevelandart.org/research/library/how-to-research/rodins-the-thinker/vandalized "The Thinker Vandalized"
  25. Web site: A God Among Men . The Cleveland Free Times . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402145630/http://www.clevescene.com/stories/15/65/a-god-among-men . 2 April 2015 .
  26. https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/advanced-search/list/joconde?qb=%5B%7B%22field%22%3A%5B%22TITR.keyword%22%5D%2C%22operator%22%3A%22%2A%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22penseur%22%2C%22combinator%22%3A%22AND%22%2C%22index%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22field%22%3A%5B%22LOCA.keyword%22%5D%2C%22operator%22%3A%22%2A%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22Paris%20%3B%20mus%C3%A9e%20Rodin%22%2C%22combinator%22%3A%22AND%22%2C%22index%22%3A1%7D%5D The Thinker
  27. Web site: Le Penseur . Kunst in de openbare ruimte . 9 April 2015.
  28. Web site: Auguste Rodin . Musée des Beaux-Arts Montréal . https://web.archive.org/web/20131122091627/http://www.mbam.qc.ca/collections/art-occidental/-/art/details/MIMSY_ID_8227 . 22 November 2013.
  29. http://www.ago.net/auguste-rodin-the-thinker Auguste Rodin, The Thinker
  30. "The enlarged Thinker: New posthumous bronze casts", penseur.org. Accessed 20 March 2013.
  31. Web site: MacLaren Art Centre – Media Releases – The Thinker Reviewed . 16 October 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090108055613/http://www.maclarenart.com/media/media_releases.cfm?ID=198&SR=7 . 8 January 2009 . dead . dmy-all .
  32. News: Dan . Barry . William K. . Rashbaum . Born of Hell, Lost After Inferno . 20 May 2002 . The New York Times . 9 April 2015.
  33. http://www.cityofgoldendale.com/art_culture.shtml City of Goldendale – Arts & Culture
  34. http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/artwork/19244/5801/6136/auguste-rodin-the-thinker/ Auguste Rodin — The Thinker
  35. Web site: PR: Martin Lawrence Galleries Delivers World-renowned Masterpieces to the Las Vegas Strip . OpenVegas . 9 April 2015.
  36. Web site: The Thinker » Norton Simon Museum. www.nortonsimon.org.
  37. Web site: Search View. 2020-07-14. ncartmuseum.org.
  38. News: The Thinker, one of the most famous works of art in the world, comes home to Stanford's Cantor Arts Center . Stanford Report . 24 January 2012 . Robin . Wander . 9 April 2015.
  39. News: Burell . Ebonee . June 2, 2022 . Bodies Human: National exhibit puts bones, organs on display in Panama City Beach . . Panama City, Florida . July 21, 2022.
  40. Web site: Photo of the Authorized replica in the Ricardo Brennand Institute .
  41. Web site: Instituto Ricardo Brennand abre no feriado de Páscoa . pt . Ricardo Brennand Institute opens on Easter holiday . Sim! . https://web.archive.org/web/20070506165528/http://www.revistasim.com.br/asp/materia.asp?idtexto=6343 . 6 May 2007 .
  42. Web site: Galeria de Fotos: Belém ganha exposição internacional de Camille Claudel . pt . Photo gallery: Bethlehem wins international exhibition of Camille Claudel. 21 June 2006 . Portal ORM . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706154034/http://www.orm.com.br/plantao/noticia/default.asp?id_noticia=170412 . 6 July 2011.
  43. "The Thinker (Enlarged)", National Museum of Western Art. Accessed 20 March 2013.
  44. Web site: Water Fountain Garden: The Thinker (Le Penseur) . Kyoto National Museum . 9 April 2015.
  45. Web site: Museum Dictionary: Rodin's Thinker . Kyoto National Museum . 9 April 2015.
  46. "List of works at Rodin wing", Shizuoka Prefectural Art Museum. Accessed 20 March 2013.
  47. Web site: Who we are . 2024-04-18 . Asia University Museum of Modern Art . en . The AsiaUniversity purchased Rodin’sThe Thinker as the highlight object of the Museum collection..
  48. Web site: 2010-11-04 . National Tsing Hua University-Cover Story . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140913102322/http://www.nthu.edu.tw/english/focus/2010/story20101104.php . 2014-09-13 . 2024-04-18 . www.nthu.edu.tw . Donation of Rodin's The Thinker:A Generous Birthday to NTHU.