Updated 05 October 2023
Currently not on display
Photo by (c) Norihiro Ueno
Currently not on display
The Creator
Date | Before 1890 |
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Materials and Techniques | bronze |
Size(cm) | 41 x 36 x 13.5 |
Inscriptions | Signed with cast number lower center: A. Rodin / No 2/8; Foundry stamp and inscription lower right bottom of base: FC By Musée Rodin 1983 |
Credit Line | Donated by the Kyoryoku-kai-society of the NMWA |
Category | Sculptures |
Collection Number | S.1988-0001 |
Provenance
Bruton Gallery, Somerset; Donated by Kyoryoku-kai-society of the National Museum of Western Art, 1989.
Exhibition History
- 1986
- Rodin: Sculpture & Drawings, Hayward Gallery, London, 1 November 1986 - 25 January 1987, cat. no. 241
- 1989
- Rodin et la Porte de l’Enfer (Rodin and the Gates of Hell), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 21 October 1989 - 17 December 1989, cat. no. 13
- 1996
- Rodin: Selected Works from National Museum of Western Art, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum, Towacho, 10 October 1996 - 17 November 1996, cat. no. 23
- 2012
- Traces of Hands: Sculpture and Drawings by Rodin and Bourdelle from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 3 November 2012 - 27 January 2013, cat. no. 68
Bibliography
- 1966
- Alhadeff, Albert. Rodin: A Self-Portrait in the Gates of Hell. The Art Bulletin, vol. 48, 1966, pp. 393-395.
- 1983
- Schmoll, J.A. gen. Eisenwerth. Rodin-Studien: Persönlichkeit, Werke, Wirkung, Bibliographie. München, c1983 (Studien zur Kunst des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts 31), pp. 224-225.
- 1985
- Elsen, Albert Edward. The Gates of hell by Auguste Rodin. Stanford, CA, 1985, pp. 138, 221.
- 1992
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 23-24 (1988-89), 1992, Hasegawa, Saburo. New Acquisitions 1988-89. p. 37, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1988-89. pp. 102-103, repr.