Painters and sculptors; a second series of Old masters and new, (1907)
Cox, Kenyon · Duffield and Co · leaf 272
iently expressive of utter despair or ofextreme physical lassitude. The figure is a slightone, and the attitude, which is not without a strangegrace of its own, throws into strong relief the bonystructure of the pelvis, the shoulder blades, the verte-bras. One feels that it was chosen mainly for… … RODIN i;> handled. It is not necessary that it should make pretence to monumental composition or decorativefitness—its beauty is intrinsic. It is a piece of puresculpture, of modelling, as I have said, and suchmodelling has scarce been seen elsewhere, unless inone or two of the greatest of those…
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