Cybele (sculpture)

Cybele
Artist Auguste Rodin
Year 1890/1904 (1890/1904)
Type Sculpture
Material Bronze
Location Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, United States

Cybele is an outdoor bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas.

Description

Auguste Rodin's Cybele was modeled c. 1890, enlarged in 1904, and cast in 1982 as edition 3/8.[1] It is on loan from Iris Cantor and the Cantor Foundation on behalf of B. Gerald Cantor.[1][2] The statue depicts the seated "voluptuous" goddess of the same name.[1][2][3] It is one of three Rodin sculptures in the garden; the other two are The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–1899) and The Walking Man (1877–1878).[3]

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