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Auguste Rodin made this drawing on paper with watercolor, a medium often seen as preparatory, a sketch on the way to something grander. But look closer. The figures are outlined with a delicacy that echoes his sculptural practice, as though he’s carving into the page itself. The subtle washes of color, barely there, emphasize the artist's touch, a deliberate and sensual act of creation. The watercolor bleeds into the paper, imbuing it with warmth and vitality. Rodin challenges the hierarchy between drawing and sculpture, between the sketch and the finished artwork. This piece invites us to reconsider the artistic process itself, to see the value in the handmade, in the intimate connection between artist, material, and idea. It demonstrates Rodin's radical approach that elevated the status of the fragment to the level of high art.