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Artist:
after Auguste
Rodin (1840-1917)
Title:
THE CATHEDRAL ENLARGE
Medium: Bronze
facsimile
Size: 58 x 38 cm
Price: $4,400
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Artist:
after
Auguste
Rodin
(1840-1917)
Title:
Girl's head ENLARGE
Medium: Bronze
facsimile
Size: 25 cm
Price: $2,200
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Artist:
after
Auguste
Rodin
(1840-1917)
Title: The Kiss ENLARGE
Medium: Bronze
facsimile
Size: 26 cm
Price: SOLD
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Artist:
after
Auguste
Rodin
Title:
MEDITERRANEAN
Medium: Bronze
facsimile
Size: 25 cm
Price: SOLD
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THE KISS
Artist:
Auguste
RODIN (1840-1917)
Title:
THE KISS
Medium: Bronze
facsimile
Signed in Plate
Size: 26 cm
Price: SOLD
NOTES:
Several
of
Rodin's
most famous independent sculptures, such as The Thinker, The Kiss
and The Three Shades, were derived from smaller reliefs contained
within The Gates of Hell. Beginning in the 1880's, Rodin
exhibited many of these figures independently as freestanding
sculptures. By the end of the 1880's it was clear that the museum of
decorative arts would never be built, but Rodin continued to work on the
project periodically for the duration of his life. During the 1880s,
while working on The Gates, Rodin was gaining notoriety. His work
became more and more sought after, especially among fashionable society
people. He modeled many portrait busts, often not as paid commissions
but as gestures of thanks or friendship. As his reputation grew so did
the activity in his studio. Rodin had several people assisting him, each
having their own particular job. There were assistants who created
plaster casts of the original clay models, a "pointer" who would ready
marble blocks to be carved, a bronze caster, and a patinater who
finished the outer surface of the completed bronze sculpture. It was
also during this period that Rodin met nineteen-year-old Camille Claudel
while filling in for his friend who taught a sculpture class to a group
of young women. Rodin soon became captivated by Camille, who had
noticeable talent and an intense desire to succeed as a sculptor. While
Rodin always retained his feelings for Rose Beuret, he and Camille
shared more similar interests and passions. Before long she became his
student, model, collaborator, and mistress. The two held a great
admiration for each other that was notably evident in both of their
works. Rodin created many sculptures with Camille serving as his
inspiration. He made many portraits of her, in addition to creating
numerous sculptures of loving couples in passionate embraces, such as
one of his most famous works, The Kiss. Although they were very
much in love, Rodin refused to leave his long-time companion Rose Beuret
and he and Camille severed their ties by 1898.
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MEDITERRANEAN
Artist:
Auguste
RODIN (1840-1917)
Title:
MEDITERRANEAN
Medium: Bronze facsimile Signed in Plate
Size: 25 cm
Price: SOLD |
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Auguste
Rodin Biography
Auguste
Rodin
(1840-1917). The French artist Auguste Rodin had a profound influence on
20th-century sculpture. His works are distinguished by their stunning
strength and realism. Rodin refused to ignore the negative aspects of
humanity, and his works confront distress and moral weakness as well as
passion and beauty. Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin was born on Nov. 12,
1840, in Paris. At the age of 14 he entered the Petite Ecole, a school
of decorative arts in Paris. He applied three times to study at the
renowned Ecole des Beaux-Arts but was rejected each time. In 1858 he
began to do decorative stonework in order to make his living. Four years
later the death of his sister Marie so traumatized Rodin that he entered
a sacred order. The father superior of the order recognized Rodin's
talents and encouraged him to pursue his art. In 1864 Rodin met a
seamstress named Rose Beuret. She became his life companion and was the
model for many of his works. That year Rodin submitted his
Man with a Broken Nose
to the Paris Salon. It was rejected but later accepted under the title
Portrait of a Roman.
Rodin traveled in 1875 to Italy, where the works of Michelangelo made a
strong impression on him. The trip inspired his sculpture
The Age of Bronze, which
was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1877. It caused a scandal because
the critics could not believe that Rodin had not used a casting of a
live model in creating so realistic a work. The controversy brought
Rodin more fame than praise might have. In 1880 he was commissioned to
create a bronze door for the future Museum of Decorative Arts. Although
the work was unfinished at the time of his death, it provided the basis
for some of Rodin's most influential and powerful work. In 1884 he was
commissioned to create a monument that became
The Burghers of Calais.
His statues
St. John the Baptist
Preaching,
Eve,
The Age of Bronze,
and
The Thinker
are world famous. Rodin died on Nov. 17, 1917, and was buried at Meudon.
When Rodin was 76 years old he gave the French
government the entire collection of his own works and other art objects
he had acquired. They occupy the Hotel Biron in Paris as the Musee Rodin
and are still placed as Rodin set them.
Several of
Rodin's
most famous independent sculptures, such as The Thinker, The Kiss
and The Three Shades, were derived from smaller reliefs contained
within The Gates of Hell. Beginning in the 1880's, Rodin
exhibited many of these figures independently as freestanding
sculptures. By the end of the 1880's it was clear that the museum of
decorative arts would never be built, but Rodin continued to work on the
project periodically for the duration of his life. During the 1880s,
while working on The Gates, Rodin was gaining notoriety. His work
became more and more sought after, especially among fashionable society
people. He modeled many portrait busts, often not as paid commissions
but as gestures of thanks or friendship. As his reputation grew so did
the activity in his studio. Rodin had several people assisting him, each
having their own particular job. There were assistants who created
plaster casts of the original clay models, a "pointer" who would ready
marble blocks to be carved, a bronze caster, and a patinater who
finished the outer surface of the completed bronze sculpture. It was
also during this period that Rodin met nineteen-year-old Camille Claudel
while filling in for his friend who taught a sculpture class to a group
of young women. Rodin soon became captivated by Camille, who had
noticeable talent and an intense desire to succeed as a sculptor. While
Rodin always retained his feelings for Rose Beuret, he and Camille
shared more similar interests and passions. Before long she became his
student, model, collaborator, and mistress. The two held a great
admiration for each other that was notably evident in both of their
works. Rodin created many sculptures with Camille serving as his
inspiration. He made many portraits of her, in addition to creating
numerous sculptures of loving couples in passionate embraces, such as
one of his most famous works, The Kiss. Although they were very
much in love, Rodin refused to leave his long-time companion Rose Beuret
and he and Camille severed their ties by 18 |
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