Rodin Works: Pygmalion and Galatea |
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The work was created around 1908 and purchased from Rodin by the American collector Thomas F. Ryan, who presented it to the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
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Rodin Works: Pygmalion and Galatea |
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The work was created around 1908 and purchased from Rodin by the American collector Thomas F. Ryan, who presented it to the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
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this late marble work, however, the theme of adoration seems to prevail. A
sitting Pygmalion is looking up to a standing Galatea. His head is nearly
touching her belly - a constellation reminding of 
