Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Collection of Sculptures
Elsewhere in this catalogue there is reprinted from the Edinburgh Review, through the courtesy of The Leonard Scott Publication Company, the greater part of an excellent article on Rodin and his work2 which permits the present writer to dispense with the involved matter of an historical and critical introduction and to confine the following notes principally to a description of the recent accessions with occasional comment along other lines, concluding with a brief reference to the sculptures earlier acquired and to the drawings by Rodin in the Museum's collection.
The celebrated Porte de l'enfer or date of Hell, Rodin's still unfinished Magnum Opus, was commissioned by the State in 1880, for the Musee des arts decoratifs. The following year Rodin completed two heroic figures of Adam and Eve which were intended to surmount the door or, in another version, to stand in front on either side of this monumental portal. The Adam was exhibited in plaster at the Salon of 1881 under the title of La Creation de l'homme.
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