Study of a Seated Man (possibly for "Ugolino"),
Twenty-firth Anniversary Exhibition, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958, unnumbered, as Study for the Thinker.
Perfecting Form: The Male Nude in the 1800s, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 16, 2023–December 1, 2024, no cat.
With Wolfgang
Gurlitt (1888–1965), Munich and Bad Aussee, Austria, as
Sitting Man, or Study for “The Thinker,” by 1945-at least June 1955 [1];
J. Cramer, March 1958; [2]
Purchased from Cramer by Fine Arts Associates, New York, stock no. S218,
March 1958-November 1958;
Purchased from Fine Arts Associates by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, MO, 1958.
NOTES:
[1] In the 1945
Waldmann catalogue, the owner is listed as W. G., Bad Aussee. He lent the
sculpture to the 1955 exhibition.
[2] Otto and
Ilsa Gerson Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC, box 3, folder 39,
stock cards: Rodin I-T, 1957-1964, copy in NAMA curatorial files.
Emil Waldmann, Auguste Rodin (Vienna: A. Schroll, 1945), 76, 125.
Rilke and Rodin, exh. cat. (Munich: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Germany,
1955), 19, 22.
Albert Edward Elsen, Rodin’s Gates of Hell (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1960), 96, 129.
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Rodin Museum of Art, 1976), 66, 67, 112, 113, 116, 118.
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin’s Thinker and
the Dilemmas of Modern Public Sculpture (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1985), 36, 37, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 206.
Bernard Barryte, Albert E. Elsen, and Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Rodin’s Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 180.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 118.
Chloé Ariot and Marc Bormand, eds., Michel-Ange / Rodin, exh. cat. (Paris : musée du Louvre/Gallimard, forthcoming 2026).
