A sculpture that was once believed to be a fake copy of French artist Auguste Rodin's work has sold for almost $1 million at ...

With “Nude Study of Balzac,” Rodin pays tribute to Honoré de Balzac, the 19th century French novelist who chronicled the dark underbelly of middle and upper middle class life.

Also in 1893, Rodin sent three marble sculptures to the Chicago World’s Fair. “They were overtly erotic, and people got upset over them, and so they were put in a separate room,” says Einecke.

Rodin exhib.; Arts' Club. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

A sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin that had disappeared from public view for almost 120 years and was thought to be a copy has sold for 860,000 euros ($984,000) at auction. “Le Désespoir,” ...

But the very next year, New York’s Museum of Modern Art was gifted a large bronze version of Rodin’s “Monument to Balzac” in memory of the art dealer Curt Valentin. The museum’s director ...

PARIS — Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was the great giant of 19th-century French sculpture. Not only did he make a good living from his bronze works, but they enabled him to buy a beautiful 17th ...

The Rodin Balzac Again. Share full article. July 9, 1898. ... that the sculptor "with infinite art has produced a strong resemblance of Balzac, with nothing commonplace about it." ...

How did the sculptor Auguste Rodin form his famous statue of Honoré de Balzac, completed in 1898? His preparatory plaster casts and all his documentation are the subject of an exhibition at the ...

Art History Meet Medardo Rosso, Rodin’s Rival Who Invented Modern Sculpture. The artist's bold experiments pushed sculpture to its limits to capture transient effects like light and atmosphere.

Auguste Rodin, Monument to Balzac, original model 1897, enlarged 1898, cast 1954. Bronze. ... His sculptures are certainly part of early Modernism for their wildly expressive figures, ...