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2023-05-08 071 Youth Triumphant (clay 1896, bronze before 1918); Rodin Museum |
One of Rodin's stranger couplins, an aged woman holds a reclining girl whose exhuberant embrace threatens to topple them both. Disparities in their ages and actions - the old woman holds her arms back as the young one clings to her neck - create an unsettling tension and energy. |