The Shade, The Slave or The Titan Grappe, Georges (1944). Catalogue du Musée Rodin. I-Hôtel Biron (5th edition). Musée Rodin. p. [338d], no.57. is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin.
Evolution The sculpture was conceived around 1880 and used in triplicate as a part of the artist's large-scale work The Gates of Hell.Informational sign, Musée Rodin Museo Soumaya, t. II. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. 2015. pp. 90-91. It evolved into both the full size sculpture The Three Shades, and a separate sculpture of a single figure, The Shade.
The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and The Three Shades.
See also List of sculptures by Auguste Rodin
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