Damned Women (Femmes damnées)
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Rodin combined two female figures that appear separately in The Gates of Hell to create one of his most boldly erotic works. In this sculpture of impassioned lovers, their straining bodies and projecting limbs manifest the experience of physical pleasure. The pejorative title comes from a poem of the same name in Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil that portrays lesbians as “damned women,” condemned to Hell for their “unnatural” desires.
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Auguste Rodin, Damned Women (Femmes damnées), ca. 1885–before 1890, cast 1979, Brooklyn Museum. Creative Commons-BY.
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