Contemporary · Victoria and Albert Museum · O1504207
Study after Nijinsky
Rodin, Auguste, 1959
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- Artist
- Rodin, Auguste
- Date
- 1959
- Medium
- Cast in bronze with marble base
- Dimensions
- Sculpture without base Height: 17.1 cm; widest circumference of figure Circumference: approximate 22 cm; height including base Height: 24.8 cm
- Era
- Contemporary
Why it matters
Figure of Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950). Modelled in plaster in 1912 by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), and cast in bronze by the Georges Rudier Foundry, 1959