Flying Figure

Auguste Rodin|Georges Rudier

modeled ca. 1890, cast 1975 · Bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

By the early 1890s Rodin was modeling the forceful, acrobatic partial figures exemplified by Flying Figure and Iris, Messenger of the Gods. In such works he pointed the way to the new, more abstract direction that modern sculptors would ultimately pursue.

Artist

Auguste Rodin|Georges Rudier

Date

modeled ca. 1890, cast 1975

Medium

Bronze

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1984