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.

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." ...

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.

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 ...

Rodin’s early studies for the sculpture generally consist of a ridiculous mound of lumpen material squished between Balzac’s legs to hold up his massive body or the writer’s penis held erect ...

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 ...