SAN FRANCISCO LEGION OF HONOUR - SPRECKELS COLLECTION |
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Miss Eve Fairfax (La Nature) The Legion´s website givesa partial list of full size (meaning: enlarged - HdR) bronze casts of the Thinker: Baltimore Museum of Art
City Museum of Kyoto, Japan Kirili: A Dialogue with Rodin The exhibition showed 19 works by contemporary French
sculptor Alain Kirili displayed in conjunction and "in
dialogue" with works in the Legion of Honor's collection of Rodin
sculpture. Kirili's abstract sculptures are ranging in size from 15
inches to over life size and fashioned from forged steel, iron,
aluminum, terra cotta. |
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Alma was introduced to Rodin by their mutual friend, the dancer Loïe Fuller.A 1904 cast of The Thinker and a cast of John the Baptist were two of the earliest acquisitions (1915) of Rodin sculptures that Alma Spreckels purchased, mostly from Rodin himself, who helped her select works from his studio, shortly before his death in 1917. |
Rodin on his Deathbed |
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During a period of nearly 35 years, Alma continued to expand her collection, finally comprising more than 80 bronze and marble sculptures, plasters and terracottas. Through her donations, she wanted to make Art accessible to a broad public. |
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