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The Prayer (sculpture)

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The Prayer
Cast of the work in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City
ArtistAuguste Rodin
Year1909
MediumBrown-patina bronze

The Prayer (La prière) is a 1909 sculpture by Auguste Rodin. As in his The Walking Man, he explores a fragment of a figure.[1] One of the bronze casts of the work is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City.[2]

References

  1. ^ (in Spanish) Museo, Soumaya (2005). Seis siglos de arte. Cien grandes maestros. México: Fundación Carso. ISBN 978-968-7794-30-3.
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Tancock, John (1997). Rodin en México. Colección de escultura europea de los siglos XIX y XX. Asociación Carso A.C. p. 83 y 176. ISBN 978-968-7794-03-7.