Transcendence and spiritual release shape the force of Leaving the Earth. This work touches upon life’s threshold moments - grief, remembrance, and the letting go of what no longer binds. Auguste Rodin, known for sculpting in mass and weight, here turns to watercolor and pencil to express a body seemingly unmoored. Through faint washes and gestural line, he evokes not flesh but feeling - a form dissolving into light, suspended between presence and departure.

Currently held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York.