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.

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 ...

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." ...