EcstasiesDrawings by Auguste Rodinaf Thomas Lederballe

The Royal Collection of Graphic Art at the SMK recently acquired a drawing by Auguste Rodin, thereby making yet another addition to its small collection of drawings by the French sculptor. Executed in watercolour and pencil, the drawing shows a woman’s torso and a vase – two bodies united in a single figure: a woman-vase. The figure is up to the waist in water, causing the space around it to appear liquid, formless, without boundaries. It has no clear-cut standpoint, no absolutely defined contours or identity: it is, quite literally, besides itself. Ecstatic.