Object Information

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

The Walking Man, c.1900

Bronze
33 1/8 in. (84.1 cm)
Signed in model on base; signature plate welded under base
Bequest of A. James Speyer, 1987.217

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

J. A. Schmoll, “Zur Genesis des Torso-Motivs und zur Deutung des fragmentarischen Stil bei Rodin,” Das Unvollendete als Kunstlerischen Form; ein Symposion (Bern: Francke, 1959), p. 131, fig. 55.

Leo Steinberg, “Introduction,” Auguste Rodin (1840–1917): An Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings (New York: Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1963).

Albert E. Elsen, The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture: From Rodin to 1969 (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969), pp. 18–19, no. 60.

John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum (Philadelphia: David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), pp. 357–69.

Jacques de Caso and Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin’s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1977), pp. 78–80.

Ruth Butler, “Rodin and the Paris Salon,” Rodin Rediscovered, edited by Albert E. Elsen (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981), pp. 38-44.

H. W. Janson, 19th Century Sculpture (Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1985), pp. 200-02.

Joan Vita Miller and Gary Marotta, Rodin: The B. Gerald Cantor Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), pp. 134-39.

Michael Brenson, “Rodin’s Heroic Figures in an Analytic Age,” New York Times (August 23, 1987), p. 27-28.

Ian Wardropper, “Collecting European Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo 154, 475 (September 2001).

Ownership History

A. James Speyer (d. 1986), Chicago, by 1986; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1987.