Explore the Versions of this artwork, Iris, Messenger of the Gods.
Examples of the sculpture exists in a number of smaller casts.
A 82.9 cm (32.6 in) high version, cast by Rudier in 1902-5, one of just seven known castings made during Rodin's lifetime, was sold for £11.57m at Sotheby's in 2016.  It was sold from the collection of Sylvester Stallone, who had nicknamed it the "flying beaver". Stallone had acquired it at auction in 2007 for £4.6m, then a record for Rodin. Lucian Freud also owned a copy for many years, which he placed at the end of his bed, making it the first thing he saw in the morning.Ten smaller 41 cm (16 in) high bronze casts were made by the Rudier Foundry for the Musée Rodin between 1945 and 1965.  One was sold at Christie's in 2007 for US$880,000, and another at Bonham's in 2014 for US$509,000.  A 95.5 cm (37.6 in) high version, cast in 1963, was sold for US$2.89m at Sotheby's in 2016.
A 17.8 cm (7.0 in) version is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a 44.5 cm (17.5 in) version, cast in 1965.
The Musée Rodin had a series of 13 casts of a 53 cm (21 in) high version with the head intact and the stump of a left arm, known as Iris, Study with Head made by the Susse foundry between 1969 and 1972.
The work may have influenced Marcel Duchamp's explicit peephole installation Étant donnés.  Some works of Francis Bacon show the influence of this sculpture, including his Lying Figure No. 1 (1959) and Reclining Woman (1961).
Rudier Foundry Reclining Woman Francis Bacon Musée Rodin Susse Sylvester Stallone Christie's Marcel Duchamp Sotheby's Museum of Modern Art Lying Figure No. 1 Lucian Freud Bonham's Metropolitan Museum of Art Étant donnés peephole