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Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989),
Orchid,1982, MAP 949 © 2014 Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved —
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917),
Assemblage :
nu féminin à tête de femme slave, émergeant d’un vase, vers 1900 ?, terre cuite et plâtre,
28,6 x 18,6 x 12,9 cm, Paris, musée Rodin,
S. 3866 © Paris, musée Rodin, photo C. Baraja
Mapplethorpe was in search of the perfect shape away from spontaneity.
Rodin sought to move away from it after the accusation of using molding for his first such «alive « sculpture, exhibited as his «Age of Iron»
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