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Rodin 1840-1917. For a long time the life of the sculptor Rodin was marked by the mixed reactions his work provoked with his audience. The lack of understanding for Rodin's work was partly due to the original character of his art. He felt little for the strict formats of Romanticism and neighter did he want to identify himself with the neutralit...
Rodin 1840-1917. For a long time the life of the sculptor Rodin was marked by the mixed reactions his work provoked with his audience. The lack of understanding for Rodin's work was partly due to the original character of his art. He felt little for the strict formats of Romanticism and neighter did he want to identify himself with the neutrality of the Impressionists. Rodin's work is characterised by a passion for the human body and he considered himself incapable of any creativity if he did not have a living model in front of him. "In everything I follow nature and never pretend I am able to control her. My only ambition is to be subservient and faithful to her". He said. Questions about his often controversial, erotic works were answered with the remark: "Art is actually nothing more than a manifestation of lust, which only arises from the potency of love". Rodin's life upheld this belief with a vast succession of lovers having passed his artistic eye. Many affairs were brief, but one of them turned out to be of enormous value to his later work: Camille Claudel. This self-willed, fierce woman, who was a very talented sculptor herself, inspired him to create his most famous and admired sculptures. The affair continued for a long time, although Camille had to put up with Rodin's numerous escapades and his loyal companion Rose Beuret. Eventually, the affair ended and Camille suffered the dramatic consequences of this split. She became isolated and confused and in the end she was forced by her family to have herself admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Towards the end of his life, Rodin could look back upon a successful career. He had given his work to the French government, which had in turn promised to found a museum in his name. Rodin was buried with full honours and the words his father had once spoken turned out to be prophetic: "The day will come that people will say about you, what they say about all trully great men: the artist Auguste Rodin is dead, but he lives on for our descendants, for the future".
The Thinker was originally part of The Gates Of Hell. Sitting in the tympan, he oversees Hell: the judge over the people below him, he too is locked up. Height figurine 14 cm. The Thinker was originally part of...
The Thinker was originally part of The Gates Of Hell. Sitting in the tympan, he oversees Hell: the judge over the people below him, he too is locked up. Height figurine 23 cm. The Thinker was originally part of...
The Thinker was originally part of The Gates Of Hell. Sitting in the tympan, he oversees Hell: the judge over the people below him, he too is locked up. Height figurine 36 cm. The Thinker was originally part of...
Toilette de Vénus, height 14 cm. Bronze sculpture, based on the kneeling nymph in the Tympan from The Gates of Hell. Toilette de Vénus, height 14 cm....
Height 20 cm. This sensual Venus figure is based on the kneeling feminine faun in the Tympan from The Gates of Hell, a bronze portal meant for the Nusee des Arts Décoratifs, which was never finished. The faun is part of the complex composition of charming nudes to both sides ... Height 20 cm. This sensual Venus...
Height figurine: 17 cm. Rodin was fascinated by the expressiveness and symbolism of hands, and was a great admirer of Gothic architecture. Two majestic hands from a Gothic arch. This inspired the sculptor to call them ‘The Cathedral’. Height figurine: 17 cm. Rodin was...
Rodin was fascinated by the expressiveness and symbolism of hands, and was a great admirer of Gothic architecture. Height 26 cm. Rodin was fascinated by the...
Height 14,5 cm. These two graceful hands are a study for "The Secret", a marble sculpture in which two right hands clutch an abstract, rectangular "secret". Height 14,5 cm. These two graceful...
Height 22 cm. Emile Zola commissioned Rodin, on behalf of the Société des Gens de Lettres, to design a statue of the novelist Honoré de Balzac who died in 1850. Height 22 cm. Emile Zola commissioned...
Height 14,5 cm. As far as subject and composition are concerned, Rodin seems to have been influenced by the sculpture "Sakountala" that Camille Claudel had modelled some years earlier. Height 14,5 cm. As far as subject and...
Height 16 cm. The theme of mother love does not occur often in Rodin’s work, except for a period around 1885. The touching sculpture can also be distinguished in relief on the side panel of the Gates of Hell, a bronze portal meant for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs which was never finished. Height 16 cm. The theme of mother...
Height 24 cm. The Age of Bronze – Rodin’s first, life-sized sculpture. Height 24 cm. The Age of Bronze –...