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Two Hands

19th–20th century

Auguste Rodin

Artist: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Title: Two Hands
Date: 19th–20th century
Place of Creation: Département de Ville-de-Paris
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Plaster and brown paint on marble base
Dimensions: with base: 6 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in. (15.875 x 6.668 x 5.874 cm) hands only: 4 1/8 x 2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in. (10.478 x 6.668 x 5.874 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr.
Accession Number: 1933.12.12

Eugène Rudier (1875–1952), New York; [1]
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881–1968), San Francisco;
Gift of Adolph B. Spreckels, Jr. (1911–1961) to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1933;
Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972.
[1] Per Le Normand–Romain 2011, p. 346.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, October 18–December 8, 1963. “Auguste Rodin,” no. 89.
Williamstown, Clark Art Institute, June 18–September 18, 2022; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, October 21, 2022–January 15, 2023. “Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern,” no. 61.
Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 21, nos. 5/6 (September–October 1963), no. 89.
Caso, Jacques de and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1977), pp. 330–331, no. 72.
Lampert, Catherine, Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings, exh. cat., London: Hayward Gallery, 1986, p. 214, cat. 113, plate 169.
Le Normand–Romain, Antoinette, with the collaboration of Hélène Marraud and Diane Tytgat, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of works in the Musée Rodin, 2 vols. (Paris: Musée Rodin and Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2007), vol. 2, p. 497.
Le Normand–Romain, Antoinette, “Rodin’s Fame,” in Bernard Barryte and Roberta K. Tarbell, eds., Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876 – 1936, exh. cat. (Stanford: Cantor Arts Center, 2011), p. 352, n. 25.
Chapman, Martin, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017), pp. 140–141, pl. 49.
Le Normand–Romain, Antoinette, ed., Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern, exh. cat. (Williamstown, Massachusetts: Clark Art Institute, 2022), p. 150, no. 61, entry by Antoinette Le Normand–Romain.

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