Auguste Rodin

French Sculptor, 1840-1917 .French sculptor. Insolvent and repeatedly rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts, he earned his living by doing decorative stonework. Not until his late 30s, after a trip to Italy, did he develop a personal style free of academic restraints and establish his reputation as a sculptor with The Age of Bronze (exhibited 1878), whose realism was so great that he was accused of forming its mold on a living person. His Gates of Hell, a bronze door commissioned in 1880 for a proposed Musee des Arts Decoratifs, remained unfinished at his death, but two of its many figures were the bases of his most famous images, The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (1886). His portraits include monumental figures of Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac. Though these and many other works caused controversy for their unconventionality, he was successful enough that he could establish a workshop where he executed only molds, leaving the casting of bronze and the carving of marble to assistants. To his sculpture he added book illustrations, etchings, and numerous drawings, mostly of female nudes.


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Auguste Rodin Nude with drapery oil


Nude with drapery
Painting ID::  33224
Nude with drapery
mk85 c.1904
mk85 c.1904
   
   
     

Auguste Rodin The Iron Age oil


The Iron Age
Painting ID::  38630
The Iron Age
mk138 1875/76 Bronze 180x66x52cm
mk138 1875/76 Bronze_180x66x52cm
   
   
     

Auguste Rodin Man and his Thought oil


Man and his Thought
Painting ID::  38631
Man and his Thought
mk138 1899/1900 Marble 77x46x55cm
mk138 1899/1900 Marble 77x46x55cm
   
   
     

Auguste Rodin Eve oil


Eve
Painting ID::  44993
Eve
mk183 Bronze green and brown patina
mk183 Bronze_green_and_brown_patina
   
   
     

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     Auguste Rodin
     French Sculptor, 1840-1917 .French sculptor. Insolvent and repeatedly rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts, he earned his living by doing decorative stonework. Not until his late 30s, after a trip to Italy, did he develop a personal style free of academic restraints and establish his reputation as a sculptor with The Age of Bronze (exhibited 1878), whose realism was so great that he was accused of forming its mold on a living person. His Gates of Hell, a bronze door commissioned in 1880 for a proposed Musee des Arts Decoratifs, remained unfinished at his death, but two of its many figures were the bases of his most famous images, The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (1886). His portraits include monumental figures of Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac. Though these and many other works caused controversy for their unconventionality, he was successful enough that he could establish a workshop where he executed only molds, leaving the casting of bronze and the carving of marble to assistants. To his sculpture he added book illustrations, etchings, and numerous drawings, mostly of female nudes.

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