Leaving the Earth

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1900/05

Auguste Rodin
French, 1840-1917

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Auguste Rodin
Title: Leaving the Earth
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1900–1905
Medium: Watercolor and graphite, with smudging, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed
Dimensions: 48.4 × 31.7 cm (19 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.902
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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.

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.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rodin: Sculptor and Storyteller”, November 3, 2017 - March 4, 2018.

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.

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