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) at auction last weekend. The piece, Le Désespoir (ca. 1892–93), had gone unnoticed by its owners until...
Bowman Sculpture has announced its upcoming exhibition, 'Faces and Fables: Rodin's Portraiture, Great Commissions, Mythology, and Sculptural Innovations. This extraordinary showcase offers an immersive journey into the compelling world of Auguste Rodin, one of...
In a startling admission, officials at Glasgow Museums have disclosed that a significant sculpture by the renowned French artist Auguste Rodin has mysteriously vanished. According to a recent freedom of information request, the statue purchased by the City of Glasgow...
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate as Rodin reread the Divine Comedy so often, he kept it tucked in his back pocket, while his monumental, sculpted doors The Gates of Hell, inspired...
Tate Modern will be presenting a major new exhibition of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). It will show how he broke the rules of classical sculpture to create a dramatically different image of the human body, mirroring the modern age's ruptures, complexities, and...
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, hovering in the background, unseen but persistently present. Yes, it was none...
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. The...
Sarah Lucas presents her first major museum exhibition in the United States titled Good Muse at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Legion of Honor exhibits two new works by Ms. Lucas (b. 1962), as well as a selection of recent sculptures in dialogue with the...
'To express a movement in all its character and truth, it is important that it be at once the result of the successive moments that have preceded the moment that one has fixed, and that it announces the sensation of those that will follow.’ This is how Rodin...