About This Artwork

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

Leaving the Earth, c. 1900-1905

Watercolor and graphite, with smudging, on cream wove paper
484 x 317 mm
Signed
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.902

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Photo-Secession Gallery, 1910.

Rochester, N.Y., Eastman House, "Photo-Secession," 1961.

Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University, "Rodin," 1965.

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Rodin Drawings: True and False," November 20, 1971-January 23, 1972, cat. 92; also traveled to New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 9-May 14, 1972.

Paris, Musée National de l'Art Moderne, May-September 1977.

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, "Rodin Drawings," 1986, cat. 176.

Paris, Musée d'Orsay, "Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York, 1905–1930," October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005, p. 83, cat. 30 (ill.).

Publication History

Camera Work, 34-35 (April-July 1911), p. 59 (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 5E3

Anne McCauley, "Auguste Rodin, 1908 and 1910: The Eternal Feminine," in Modern Art in America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (Washington, D.C., 2001), pp. 77 and 494.

Ownership History

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York, from 1910 [according to McCauley 2001]; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O'Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.