The Courtauld Gallery is presenting Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement, the first major exhibition in the UK to explore Auguste Rodin’s fascination with dance and bodies captured in extreme acrobatic poses. This...
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Auguste Rodin Marble Sells For £14m In Otherwise Disappointing Sotheby’s Sale
A marble statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin has sold at Sotheby’s, New York for a record $20.4m (£14m). The Impressionist and Modern art sale had mixed results with only a 60% sell through rate, seeing winners like Claude Monet's wife ‘Camille' sold for...
Stolen Camille Claudel Bronze Bust of Lover Auguste Rodin Recovered
A rare bronze bust of Auguste Rodin by his lover the sculptor Camille Claudel has been recovered in a brocante shop near the city of Lyon in France. It was reported stolen 23 years ago from the Gueret museum, in Clermont Ferrand, central France.Camille...
Rodin Sculpture Theft: $300,000 Bust Missing From Copenhagen Museum
A sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) valued at $300,000 has been stolen from a Copenhagen Museum (Ny Carlsberg Glypotek). Two men posing as tourists were spotted on cctv in the area at the time the work of art was taken. It is...
Rodin Sculpture Stolen 25 Years Ago Recovered From Christie’s Sale
A valuable, stolen bronze by Auguste Rodin has been recovered, after being offered at an auction, at Christie's. In 1991, thieves stole artwork valued at over $1 million USD in a series of raids on a private residence in Beverly Hills whilst the owners were out of...
Paris Court Declines Ruling On Alleged Rodin Cast Forgery
Paris's criminal court has declared in a statement that it had no jurisdiction in a high profile case of suspected Rodin forgeries reports AFP, the judges came to the conclusion that the potential criminal offences were committed outside France. The lengthy legal...
Police Uncover Rodin and Degas Sculpture In Cornelius Gurlitt Hoard
The Cornelius Gurlitt case continues with the discovery of two new masterpieces. This time it is sculpture by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas, that has been found in the Munich flat of the son of one of Germany's most notorious Nazi art looters. The pieces were among a...
Erwin Schrodinger Honoured With Google Doodle Showing Quantum Cat
Erwin Schrödinger the Austrian physicist who developed theories of quantum physics is honoured today with a Google’s doodle. Born 12 August 1887, Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, was an Austrian physicist who developed a number of...
Bacon and Rodin in dialogue: New Exhibition For February
At the beginning of September 1959, Francis Bacon travelled to Cornwall, seeking to escape the distractions of London, and took out a six-month rental on a studio in St Ives from the artists William Redgrave and Peter Lanyon. One evening at a party in St Ives,...