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Auguste Rodin Cathedral Clasping Hands Sculpture Statue
Item No. 6008BM
Reproduction after Museum Original - Rodin Museum, Paris, 1908
Throughout centuries, the hand has been seen as a symbol of power and creative force. Not surprisingly,
the hand, with its rich iconography and affective power, took on great importance for Auguste Rodin (1840 –
1917). It offered him a way to explore pure form without meaning or create designs with meaning related to
the abstruse imagery of the symbolist movement, with which he had an affinity. The human hand clearly
absorbed his attention. Visitors to his studios described drawers filled with hundreds of tiny plaster hands
in an amazing variety of expressive gestures. Rodin assiduously examined the specific form of the hands
and the expression of the facial features before applying them, often as separate pieces, to the model of a
full figure. "Rodin is the sculptor of hands as Verlaine is their poet", said Gustave Kahn. The Cathedral
Hands of 1908 is an assemblage of two right hands shaping the void into a Gothic arch.
Made of cast marble.
Dimensions: 12.5" x 5.5" x 6"
Weight: 9 lbs
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$79.00
Item No. 6008BM
Reproduction after Museum Original - Rodin Museum, Paris, 1908
Throughout centuries, the hand has been seen as a symbol of power and creative force. Not surprisingly,
the hand, with its rich iconography and affective power, took on great importance for Auguste Rodin (1840 –
1917). It offered him a way to explore pure form without meaning or create designs with meaning related to
the abstruse imagery of the symbolist movement, with which he had an affinity. The human hand clearly
absorbed his attention. Visitors to his studios described drawers filled with hundreds of tiny plaster hands
in an amazing variety of expressive gestures. Rodin assiduously examined the specific form of the hands
and the expression of the facial features before applying them, often as separate pieces, to the model of a
full figure. "Rodin is the sculptor of hands as Verlaine is their poet", said Gustave Kahn. The Cathedral
Hands of 1908 is an assemblage of two right hands shaping the void into a Gothic arch.
Made of cast marble.
Dimensions: 12.5" x 5.5" x 6"
Weight: 9 lbs
SHIPPING: Displayed shipping cost may refer for US customers only but we also ship worldwide - please
contact us for a shipping quote if you are ordering outside USA.
Note: The "Ancient Sculpture Gallery" logo over the picture is only a copyright computer watermark which
shows only on the image - it is not part of, or on the actual product.
$79.00
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