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    		• Rodin, Auguste,
     
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    		• Alexis Rudier Fondeur,
     
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    		• Figure group -- Male
     
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    		• Homage -- Weill, Ralph
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    The Three Shades, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917, sculptor.
    Alexis Rudier Fondeur, founder.
    Title: 
    The Three Shades, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Les Trois Ombres, (sculpture).
    Raphael Weill Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1880-1920. Installed ca. 1924.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze with dark green; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 7 1/2 ft. x W. 6 ft.; Base: approx. H. 8 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (Base, right side:) A. Rodin (Base, back lower right:) Alex Rudier / Fondeur, Paris (Granite base, front:) MDCCCXXXVII/.TO./.RAPHAEL. WEILL./OFFICIER.DE.LA.LEGION.D'HONNEVR/.NATIVE.OF.FRANCE./FROM.HIS.MANHOOD.AN. AMERICAN.CITIZEN/.PATRIOTIC.PHILANTHROPIC.ART.LOVING/.SOMETIME.MEMBER.OF.THE.BOARD.OF.EDVCATION./.THIS.MEMORIAL.IS.ERECTED.BY.THE.PEOPLE.OF.SAN.FRANCISCO./.AS.A.TOKEN.OF.THEIR.AFFECTION./MCMXX signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A group of three male figures stand together almost in a circle on a rocky formation. The figures are nude and have strong muscular bodies. Each figure lowers its head and shoulders, and reaches forward, toward the center of the group, with one arm. The figures are positioned as if they are almost touching one another.
    Subject: 
    Figure group -- Male
    Homage -- Weill, Ralph
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- San Francisco
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Commission, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, California 94102
    Located Lincoln Park, Parking lot east of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 94121
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Spreckels, Alma de Bretteville, San Francisco, California
    Remarks: 
    The sculpture was previously in the collection of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels. Rodin created several versions of the sculpture between 1880 and 1905, and this cast is one of his later versions. A version of the sculpture was first executed around 1880 as part of a larger piece called "The Gates of Hell" and over the next several years, Rodin enlarged the figures and made changes to the modeling of the arms and hands.
    This cast of The Three Shades was acquired in 1920 by the people of San Francisco through public subscription in memory of Raphael Weill (1837-1920), artist, philanthropist, businessman, and member of the Legion of Honor. IAS files contain an excerpt from Martin Snipper's "A Survey of Art Work in the City and County of San Francisco," San Francisco: Art Commission, City and County of San Francisco, 1975 which notes that a bronze plaque, now missing from the base, contained a relief portrait of Raphael Weill. The twenty-two inch diameter plaque was created by Haig Patigian in 1911 and was placed on the base in 1920.
    IAS files contain an excerpt from Jacques De Caso's "Rodin's Sculpture: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection the California Palace of the Legion of Honor," San Francisco: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, c1977, pg. 139-141; an information sheet dated March 1985 and a Damage Report Form dated Nov. 29, 1990 from the files of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and a May 3, 1991 Arts Commission memo noting that there did not seem to be any restrictions to relocating the sculpture. The San Francisco SOS! survey noted that the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco asked permission of the Art Commission to move the sculpture into the Legion of Honor building and permission was granted, but had not been scheduled.
    References: 
    Public Monument Conservation Project, 1986.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, California, San Francisco survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS CA000001
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