Sculpture by Auguste Rodin
Damned Women is a sculpture created by Auguste Rodin between 1885 and 1890 as part of his "The Gates of Hell" project—it appears on the upper right as the counterpart to "The Fallen Caryatid".
Description.
It shows two embracing women, a theme also explored by the same artist in "Youth Triumphant", "Ovid's Metamorphoses" and "Illusions Received by the Earth". 
According to Elsen:
Work.
As in "Metamorphoses", Rodin modelled the work on ballerinas from the Paris Opera, as recommended by Edgar Degas. The work also draws on "Les Fleurs du mal" by Charles Baudelaire, particularly "Lesbos" and two poems entitled "Femmes damnées". According to Miranda: