The Gates of Hell

Auguste Rodin worked on 'The Gates of Hell' ('La Porte de l'Enfer') for nearly four decades, from 1880 until his death in 1917. Commissioned by the French state for a never-built Museum of Decorative Arts, the seven-metre bronze doors gather more than 200 figures from Dante's 'Inferno' into a seething vertical drama that hosts the first versions of 'The Thinker', 'The Kiss', and 'The Three Shades'. Cast posthumously, it exists in seven authorised editions at the Musée Rodin in Paris, the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, and elsewhere — the source-book of Rodin's entire oeuvre.

Exhibition Venue

Musée Rodin

Paris, France

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