This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable versions are those created under his supervision. There was also a limited edition of 25 copies made from the original plaster mold by the Musée Rodin after Rodin's death.

The Thinker exists as bronze casts, exhibition plaster casts (some were painted to look like bronze patina), and original production plasters, which some consider art objects today.

Copies of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime Location Image Size Material Date Notes References National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Original Bronze 1884 Earliest bronze casting, has Florentine cap Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva Original Bronze 1896 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Original Bronze 1901 Panthéon, Latin Quarter, Paris (destroyed) Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1904 Earliest monumental. The statue was vandalized and later scrapped. The Burrell Collection Original Bronze 1902 Bought by Mr. Burrell in 1922. Many fingerprints and marks were left by the sculptor. University of Louisville Monumental Bronze 1903 First casting by A. A. Hébrard, lost wax technique, displayed at Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commissioned by Max Linde in 1903. Today Detroit Institute of Arts Monumental Bronze 1903 First casting by Alexis Rudier, sand casting, four days younger than Louisville copy, publicly displayed at Leipzig and Berlin Metropolitan Museum, New York Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1904 Sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis to replace the bronze version Musée Rodin, Paris Monumental Bronze 1904 Installed outside Paris Panthéon in 1906, moved to Musée Rodin garden in 1922 Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Monumental Bronze 1904 the "third Hébrard copy" Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Monumental Plaster 1904 acquired by museum in October 1904 National Museum, Poznań Monumental Plaster 1904 acquired in January 1905 Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Monumental Plaster 1904 purchased from the artist in 1907 Legion of Honor, San Francisco Monumental Bronze 1904 Alexis Rudier cast, purchased in 1915, donated to San Francisco in 1922 Private collection, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Original Bronze 1906 made for Ralph Pulitzer, sold for $15.3 million in 2013 Laeken Cemetery, Brussels Monumental Bronze 1906 Alexis Rudier cast, installed on the grave of Jef Dillen in 1927 One of the 22 copies of The Thinker made during Rodin's lifetime Ca' Pesaro, Venice Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1907 purchased at the 1907 Biennale Rodin Auguste, Catalogue of Ca' Pesaro Congressional Plaza, Buenos Aires Monumental Bronze 1907 Purchased by the museum director to Auguste Rodin, one of the three sculptures cast in the original mold and signed by him Waldemarsudde, Sweden Monumental Bronze 1908 Alexis Rudier cast, for Prince Eugen of Norway and Sweden Auguste Rodin, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde Private collection Original Bronze 1916 sold for $11.8 million in 2010 Rodin's tomb, Meudon Monumental Bronze 1916 Alexis Rudier cast, placed at the grave when his wife died Cleveland Museum of Art Monumental Bronze 1916 Alexis Rudier cast, purchased 1916, damaged in 1970 and remains unrepaired. According to police, the perpetrators were a faction of the Weathermen, possibly the same individuals killed in a bomb-making accident in New York City, although police never charged anyone in the bombing. "The Thinker Vandalized" The Cleveland Museum of Art Musée Rodin at Meudon Monumental Plaster, bronze-tinted 1916 the museum has several plaster casts in different sizes and of different ages The Thinker, Joconde Portail des collections des musées de France

Later casts

Europe

France Saint-Paul de Vence Germany Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin Sächsisches Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra zu Meißen, Meissen Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld Netherlands Apollolaan, in front of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel Singer Laren, Laren (badly damaged by thieves in 2007; restored and re-exhibited in 2010) Norway National Gallery of Norway, Oslo Russia Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Serbia University of Arts, Belgrade Switzerland Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich Turkey Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital, Istanbul United Kingdom Burrell Collection (Pollok House), Glasgow, Scotland Vatican City Vatican Museums, Collection of Modern Religious Art

North America

Canada Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal Art Gallery of Ontario, TorontoAuguste Rodin, The Thinker MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie"The enlarged Thinker: New posthumous bronze casts", penseur.org. Accessed 20 March 2013. Mexico Museo Soumaya, Mexico City Costa Rica Compañía Nacional de la Danza United States Cantor Fitzgerald offices in World Trade Center, New York City (survived the September 11 attacks; missing afterwards) Columbia University, New York City Maryhill Museum of Art, GoldendaleCity of Goldendale – Arts & Culture Bal Harbour Shops, Miami Martin Lawrence Gallery, Las Vegas University of Louisville, Louisville Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford Bodies: The Exhibition, originally Tampa (travelling; a recreation made from a plastinated human corpse posed like the original sculpture) Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MichiganAbt, Jeffrey. Valuing Detroit’s Art Museum: A History of Fiscal Abandonment and Rescue. Detroit, 2017, pp. xvi; p. 123, fig. 4.2 (ill.).

South America Argentina Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires Brazil Ricardo Brennand Institute, Recife Lily Marinho collection, Rio de Janeiro Chile Borde Costero, Viña del Mar

Asia

China China Central Academy of Fine Arts library, Beijing Guangzhou Opera House, Guangzhou Shanghai Library, Shanghai Changchun World Sculpture Park, Changchun India Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati Thinkers Park at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry Nalsar University of Law, Shamirpet Indonesia Kolese Kanisius, Jakarta Israel RAD Data Communications, Tel Aviv Japan The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo"The Thinker (Enlarged)", National Museum of Western Art. Accessed 20 March 2013. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka"List of works at Rodin wing", Shizuoka Prefectural Art Museum. Accessed 20 March 2013. Singapore OUE Bayfront, Marina Bay Resorts World Sentosa, Sentosa Island South Korea Beartree Park, Sejong City Taiwan Chimei Museum, Tainan Asia University, Taichung National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu Vietnam FPT University, Danang campus FPT University, Cantho campus FPT University, Quynhon campus

See also List of sculptures by Auguste Rodin

References

External links

The Thinker project, Munich. Discussion of the history of the many casts of this artwork. Rodin: The B. Gerald Cantor Collection, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on The Thinker