Study for Galatea
Auguste Rodin
modeled ca. 1889, cast before 1912 · Cast plaster · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Rodin challenged sculptural ideals by leaving his figures in varying states of incompletion. In this study for the marble Pygmalion and Galatea, the figure of Galatea emerges gracefully from a shapeless plinth. The truncated and faceless figure evokes the process of artistic formation through expressive fragments.
- Artist
- Auguste Rodin
- Date
- modeled ca. 1889, cast before 1912
- Medium
- Cast plaster
- Culture
- French
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Auguste Rodin, 1912
