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Rhode Island School of Design Art Museum, Providence
The RISD Museum
224 Benefit Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903 USA
Tel. 001 - 401 - 454 65 00
Fax 001 - 401 - 454 65 56
The RISD Museum traces the history of art from antiquity to the
present through its collection of more than 85,000 works of art
including work by Rodin and other 19th-century French sculptors
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, Jules Dalou, and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.
In 1966, a fund drive for $70,000 resulted in 372 donations toward
the purchase of Rodin's Study for the Monument to Balzac. The Museum
considers this nude version as perhaps the most controversial of several
studies created by Rodin for this commission and a significant addition
to the 19th-century bronzes in the Museum. It was unveiled in the Radeke
Garden.
 Study for the Figure of Balzac, 1892, [Spear: version i,
nude,
standing in the position of a wrestler, legs apart,
arms crossed on
chest, bronze, foundry mark Alexis
Rudier, H. 50¼" (dark gold
patina),
signed "Rodin, Original"]
The Hand of God, 1890´s?, marble, H. 39½",
ex-Samuel P. Golt
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