Torso of the Naked Muse

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During the Whistler exhibition inaugural dinner held in London, in 1905, it was decided to erect a monument to the painter James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). The commission went to Rodin, who, in 1903, had been unanimously elected president of the International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, the association founded by Whistler in 1897. Rodin decided to pay tribute to the painter’s genius, not through a conventional portrait, an effigy or historical scene, but through an allegorical figure, a “Muse climbing the mountain of fame”, the model for which was Gwen John, a young Welsh painter. This design, which paved the way for a whole new concept of the public monument, resulted in a large-scale, armless,nude figure, exhibited at the Salon, where it was criticized for its unfinished appearance.The sculpture should have been reworked, but on Rodin’s death, the monument was still not complete.

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Musée Rodin
The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919, dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites, at the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, and just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine). The collection includes 6,600 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 8,000 old photographs and 7,000 objets d’art. The museum receives 700,000 visitors annually.

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