Title: Sculpture of a Thinker Bronze Statue
Artist: (After) Auguste Rodin
Type/Material: Bronze
Dimensions: Approximately H36cm (14.17 inches)
Signature: The top is signed with "Rodin."
Condition Report: The base condition is not specified, but the overall condition of the sculpture is reported as very good.

Description: This sculpture is a bronze version of "The Thinker," originally created by Auguste Rodin. The original sculpture was made in bronze and marble in 1902 and is located at The Musée Rodin in Paris. There are multiple original castings, studies, and versions of this iconic sculpture. "The Thinker" depicts a man deep in contemplation and is often associated with philosophy.

About the artist:
Auguste Rodin, (born Nov. 12, 1840, Paris, France—died Nov. 17, 1917, Meudon), French sculptor. Insolvent and repeatedly rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts, he earned his living by doing decorative stonework. Not until his late 30s, after a trip to Italy, did he develop a personal style free of academic restraints and establish his reputation as a sculptor with The Age of Bronze (exhibited 1878), whose realism was so great that he was accused of forming its mold on a living person. His Gates of Hell, a bronze door commissioned in 1880 for a proposed Musée des Arts Décoratifs, remained unfinished at his death, but two of its many figures were the bases of his most famous images, The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (1886). His portraits include monumental figures of Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac. Though these and many other works caused controversy for their unconventionality, he was successful enough that he could establish a workshop where he executed only molds, leaving the casting of bronze and the carving of marble to assistants. To his sculpture he added book illustrations, etchings, and numerous drawings, mostly of female nudes. He revitalized sculpture as an art of personal expression and has been considered one of its greatest portraitists.