Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction
A rediscovered Auguste Rodin marble sculpture, kept in plain sight for decades atop a piano in a French family home, has fetched €1.1 million ($1.2 million)…
10 June 2025
A rediscovered Auguste Rodin marble sculpture, kept in plain sight for decades atop a piano in a French family home, has fetched €1.1 million ($1.2 million)…
10 June 2025
Bowman Sculpture has announced its upcoming exhibition, ‘Faces and Fables: Rodin’s Portraiture, Great Commissions, Mythology, and Sculptural Innovations.
10 May 2024
Officials at Glasgow Museums have disclosed that a significant sculpture by the renowned French artist Auguste Rodin has mysteriously vanished.
22 October 2023
Gagosian presents new sculptures by Thomas Houseago and posthumously cast bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin, selected in collaboration with the Musée Rodin in Paris.
Monday–Friday 10–6
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate …
9 June 2021
Tate Modern will be presenting a major new exhibition of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). It will show how he broke the rules
15 April 2021
Experimental works reveal a new side to the sculptor who changed modern art
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The longer I spent in the British Museum’s admirable new blockbuster show, Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, the more keenly I seemed to feel the presence of a third, uninvited presence
26 April 2018
Discover how ancient Greek sculpture inspired Rodin to set a radical new direction for modern art.
daily 10.00–17.30, 20.30 on Fridays.
A long-lost marble bust by Auguste Rodin depicting Napoleon Bonaparte, has turned up in a municipal building in Madison, New Jersey. The major work by the French sculptor was last seen in an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in the 1920s.
16 October 2017
Sarah Lucas presents her first major museum exhibition in the United States titled Good Muse at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
15 July 2017
The Courtauld Gallery’s small, intimate, two room exhibition is devoted to a little-known body of work made by Rodin in the last two decades of his life. Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement 20 October 2016 – 22 January 2017 / The Courtauld Gallery
22 October 2016
The Courtauld Gallery is presenting Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement, the first major exhibition in the UK to explore Auguste… Read More
9 September 2016
A marble statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin has sold at Sotheby’s, New York for a record $20.4m (£14m)…. Read More
10 May 2016
A rare bronze bust of Auguste Rodin by his lover the sculptor Camille Claudel has been recovered in a brocante shop… Read More
1 February 2016
A sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) valued at $300,000 has been stolen from a Copenhagen Museum (Ny Carlsberg… Read More
20 August 2015
A valuable, stolen bronze by Auguste Rodin has been recovered, after being offered at an auction, at Christie’s. In 1991,… Read More
9 July 2015
Paris’s criminal court has declared in a statement that it had no jurisdiction in a high profile case of suspected… Read More
2 December 2014
The Cornelius Gurlitt case continues with the discovery of two new masterpieces. This time it is sculpture by Auguste Rodin… Read More
25 July 2014
At the beginning of September 1959, Francis Bacon travelled to Cornwall, seeking to escape the distractions of London, and took… Read More
4 February 2013
The Henry Moore Foundation is presenting a major new exhibition titled Moore Rodin, which compares the work of Moore with… Read More
10 December 2012
Auguste Rodin often considered the father of modern sculpture has been internationally recognised as one of the worlds greatest sculptors.His… Read More
12 November 2012
You can’t help but admire Tracey Emin’s for wanting to use her name and art for the good in reviving… Read More
25 May 2012
Rodin’s Houses of Parliament sculpture in ownership mystery Rodin’s sculpture ‘The Burghers of Calais’ has stood in Westminster outside the… Read More
18 November 2011
Rodin’s The Kiss comes to Margate From 4 October 2011 – to 2 September 2012 Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss, 1901-04… Read More
14 May 2011
Massimiliano Pelletti: Metamorfosi The Language Of Stone – Bowman Sculpture
30 October 2025
Christie’s has announced the sale of three paintings by Lucian Freud, each from the same private collection, in its 20th/21st… Read More
27 September 2025
At a time when many London galleries are shutting their doors, Bowman Sculpture has chosen to expand. The Mayfair gallery has unveiled a £200,000 refurbishment…
24 September 2025
INCLUSION, the debut UK solo exhibition of Mal Fostock, will occupy the West Gallery. At the same time, the North Galleries will be given over to TRANSMUTE, a new body of work by Bushra Fakhoury….
17 September 2025
UPDATE: Francis Bacon’s Portrait of a Dwarf (1975) has sold above its £6 million to £9 million estimate, hammering down at… Read More
15 September 2025
Henry Moore was born July 30, 1898 – Died August 31, 1986. The hulking, hollowed-out forms of Henry Moore’s sculptures have become as much a part of Britain’s visual identity…
30 July 2025
For the June diary, I begin with two important recently published books about religion and contemporary art.
2 June 2025