Nude
Rodin is best known for heavy bronze sculptures like The Thinker, but this sketch reveals his wilder, looser side as a draftsman. He famously practiced a kind of 'blind drawing,' keeping his eyes glued to the moving model and never looking at the paper to capture pure, raw energy. The result is this ghostly, elongated figure that seems to shimmer with soft watercolor washes, proving the master sculptor was just as brilliant with a fluid line as with a chisel.
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