Miniature figurine - Le penseur - 1.7kg - Serpentine stone

This beautiful sculpture “The Thinker” is made of serpentine stone and is a handmade art object from Zimbabwe. The artist has worked it to the finest detail. This is a uniquely produced piece. This sculpture is carved from a single piece and has beautiful color variations in the stone.

This is a unique specimen.

The sculpture is in impeccable condition.
It is a signed sculpture.

The length is 32 cm
The weight is 1.7 kg

The sculpture is well packaged for shipping.
It is preferred that this sculpture be collected in Bodegraven

The Thinker (Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It represents the creative mind at work.[1] The sculpture is often associated with philosophy due to the posture of the man, who is engrossed in deep thought.[2]

Rodin created this famous work in 1881. It was in that year that Rodin received his first official Parisian commission: a monumental bronze gate for a future museum of Decorative Arts. This Porte de l’Enfer (Gate of Hell) was conceived after Dante’s Divine Comedy. The bronze sculpture was intended for the central pediment, while the accentuated musculature and the concentrated expression of the sculpture evoked the frescoes of Michelangelo in the Florentine Sistine Chapel. The sculpture is also known as Le Poète, because it was really meant to represent the meditating Dante. The Thinker was Rodin’s first work to be exhibited in a public place. On 21 April 1906 it was installed in the Pantheon during a fierce political and social crisis, turning the sculpture into a socialist symbol. In 1922 the sculpture with its pedestal was moved to the garden of Hôtel Biron, the current Rodin Museum. Another specimen is located in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Other copies stand at Rodin’s tomb in Meudon and at the main entrance of the Detroit Institute of Arts.