id: 98128 accession number: 1917.745 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.745 updated: 2020-11-04 19:17:29.848000 Little Brother and Sister, 1916. Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917). Marble; overall: 56.6 cm (22 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Salmon P. Halle 1917.745 title: Little Brother and Sister title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1916 creation date earliest: 1916 creation date latest: 1916 current location: creditline: Gift of Salmon P. Halle copyright: --- culture: France, early 20th Century technique: marble department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960 type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 56.6 cm (22 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed on base beneath figures: "A. Rodin" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Salmon P. Halle date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Rodin spent years exploring new ways of representing the human emotions of love and affection experienced at different stages of life. The bodies and gestures of the children here suggest an innocent foreshadowing of the mature couple in the artist’s celebrated sculpture The Kiss of 1882. Both works feature a strong tactile contrast between the rough-hewn lower area and the smooth surfaces of the nude body above. Upwardly spiraling forms, combined with shifting areas of light and shadow, infuse the sculpture with dynamic energy. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Modern Sculpture at the Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 6 (1917): 108-09. page number: Mentioned: pp. 108-109 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136110 "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 7 (1917): 135-37. page number: Mentioned: p. 135 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136133 "Rodin Memorial Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 9 (1917): 162-63. page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 162-163 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136150 "Report of the Museum's Second Year." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 6/7 (1918): 69-79. page number: Mentioned: p. 70 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136208 Tacha, Athena. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Mentioned: p. 100, cat. no. XVI; Reproduced: p. [68], Plate 84 url: https://archive.org/details/RodinSculpture/page/n114 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.745/1917.745_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.745/1917.745_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.745/1917.745_full.tif