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Artist: Auguste Rodin
"Antonin Proust" original drypoint
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Delteil 10. Published in Paris in 1899 by H. Floury for Auguste Rodin "Statuaire" by Lon Maillard. This impression is prin...
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Materials
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Dante & Virgilus - Etching, (Ed. Goupil, 1897)
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, FR
ARTISTE: after Auguste RODIN
TITLE : Dante & Virgilus
MEDIUM : Etching/photogravure after the original drawing
SIGNATURE : Unsigned
YEAR : 1897
PAPER : Vellum
SIZE : 13 x 10"
INFOR...
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1890s Academic Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
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Small head of the Man with the broken nose
By Auguste Rodin
Located in PARIS, FR
Petite tête de l'Homme au nez cassé
Small head of the Man with the broken nose
by Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)
Sketch for the Gates of Hell
Variant with symmetric neck
Bronze with blac...
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Materials
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Rare Rodin Watercolour & Pencil on Paper of a Seated Nude - The Cambodian Dancer
By Auguste Rodin
Located in London, GB
Auguste RODIN (1840-1917)
Seated Nude, Cambodian Dancer
c. 1898 - 1900
Pencil and watercolour
11.5 x 9.3 inches;
25 x 20.5 inches, inc. frame
Provenance:
Christie's South Kensington: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
"It's very simple. My drawings are the key of my art."
Rodin was an extraordinary creative artist and a prolific worker. After attending the “Petite École”, he worked in the studio of the ornamentalist Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, first in Paris, then in Brussels, where his skill in handling decorative subjects fashionable in the 18th century became apparent. His discovery of Michelangelo, during a visit to Italy in 1875-76, was a decisive moment in his career. Rodin would, in turn, break new ground in sculpture, paving the way for 20th-century art, by introducing methods and techniques that were central to his own artistic aesthetics.
In 1906, King Sisowath of Cambodia visited France on an official state visit. It was on this visit that Rodin discovered the dancers of the Cambodian Royal Ballet and was inspired to draw and paint them over 150 times.
They made a deep impression on the artist, as he confided to Georges Bourdon, in an article for the newspaper Le Figaro on 1 August 1906: “There is an extraordinary beauty, a perfect beauty, about these slow, monotonous dances, which follow the pulsating rhythm of the music… [The Cambodians] have taught me movements I had never come across anywhere before…”
Originally seeing them in Paris he left everything suddenly to follow the dancers of the royal ballet to Marseille, from where they would embark on their return to Cambodia.
In just one week, he made about one hundred and fifty drawings, re-transcribing or interpreting the ballet poses, with an obvious fascination for the arms and hands of the dancers. These drawings were later highlighted with watercolour, creating coloured harmonies of a rare refinement.
The first performance of the Cambodian Royal Ballet took place in the context of the Colonial Exhibition in Marseille. Sisowath 1st had just been crowned King of Cambodia when he undertook the first trip ever to be made by a Cambodian sovereign to France, which had controlled Cambodia since June 1884. This official visit occurred at the height of French colonial expansion. Previously, the Universal Exhibition of 1900 had attracted 48 million visitors! The organisers realised what a tremendous impact this event made on the public, and it was soon adopted as the main tool for colonial propaganda. At the exhibition in Marseilles, the area devoted to Indochina was the largest of the seven sections.
When Auguste Rodin met the troupe of dancers for the first time in July 1906, during their brief visit to Paris for an exceptional performance at the Pré Catalan...
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Auguste Rodin "Main Droite Feminine" Bronze Sculpture by Alexis Rudier Foundry
By Auguste Rodin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Auguste Rodin French, 1840-1917
"Main Droite Feminine, doigts semi replies, annulaire leve"
Feminine Right Hand, semi-folded fingers, raised ring finger
Conceived circa 1890-1900; cast circa 1930-1940
Signed "A Rodin" on the right side of the wrist and with the foundry mark "Alexis Rudier...
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Iris little study, Auguste Rodin, Bronze, Sculpture, Modern Art, 1970's, Nudes
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Geneva, CH
Iris little study, Auguste Rodin, Bronze, Sculpture, Modern Art, 1970's, Nudes
Petite etude pour Iris, douzième épreuve
Ed. 12/12 pcs
1973
Bronze with brown and black patina
Marked...
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La Ronde, Drypoint by Auguste Rodin
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - La Ronde, Year: 1883, Medium: Drypoint, signed in pencil, Image Size: 4 x 5.75 inches, Size: 13.25 x 9.5 in. (33.66 x 24.13 cm), Reference: Del...
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Portrait d'Antonin Proust, Drypoint Etching by Auguste Rodin
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Portrait d'Antonin Proust, Year: 1884-1888, Medium: Drypoint Etching, signed in pencil, Size: 9.5 x 7 in. (24.13 x 17.78 cm), Frame Size: 17.5 ...
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Tête Tragique
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Tête Tragique
6 ½ high x 4 x 4 1/2 inches
9 ½ inches high with base
Bronze, inscribed in three places:
Near top of head signed “Rodin” “No 4”
Inscribed with foundry mark “Georges Rudier...
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Lying Nude - Lithograph and stencil
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste RODIN (after)
Lying Nude (1920)
Lithograph and Stencil
Printed signature in the plate
Limited to 200 copies not numbered
On thin vellum 27 x 37 cm (c. 11 x 15 in)
INFORMAT...
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Lithograph, Stencil
Young lady (1920) - stencil
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste RODIN (after)
Young lady (1920)
MEDIUM : Stencil
LIMITED : 200 copies not numbered
PAPER : thin vellum
SIZE : 37 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11")
IN...
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1920s Modern Auguste Rodin Art
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Stencil
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Victor-Marie Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] (listen); 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time.
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Though he was a committed royalist when young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed, and he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, serving in politics as both deputy and senator. His work touched upon most of the political and social issues and the artistic trends of his time. His opposition to absolutism and his literary stature established him as a national hero. He was honoured by interment in the Panthéon.
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) was deeply inspired by tradition yet rebelled against its idealized forms. Over the course of a career that spanned the late 1800s and early 1900s, he introduced innovative practices that paved the way for modern sculpture. He believed that art should be true to nature, a philosophy that shaped his attitudes to models and materials.
Controversies surrounded certain of his works, such as the scandals around The Age of Bronze or the Monument to Honoré de Balzac, and for his unfinished projects, most famously The Gates of Hell, but few who recognize Rodin's sculptures have failed to be moved by them. His genius was to express inner truths of the human psyche, and his gaze penetrated beneath the external appearance of the world. Exploring this realm beneath the surface, Rodin developed an agile technique for rendering the extreme physical states that correspond to expressions of inner turmoil or overwhelming joy. He sculpted a universe of great passion and tragedy, a world of imagination that exceeded the mundane reality of everyday existence.
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1840
François-Auguste-René Rodin is born in Paris on November 12 to Jean-Baptiste Rodin, a clerk with the police department, and Marie Cheffer Rodin. The family, which also included Rodin's sister Maria (born 1838), is devoutly Catholic.
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After his early religious schooling, Rodin attends the Petite École, a school specializing in the arts and mathematics, where he studies drawing and painting.
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Although a successful student at the Petite École, Rodin fails the entrance exam to the École des Beaux-Arts, the most prominent art school in France. The committee likes his drawings but the eighteenth-century manner of Rodin's sculpture fails to meet with approval.
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To earn money to help support his family, Rodin takes a series of jobs working for commercial decorators, learning at the same time every facet of the sculptor's craft.
1862
Rodin's beloved sister Maria dies and in his grief he decides to enter the order of the Society of the Blessed Sacrament. However, by the following year, the founder of the order, Father Pierre-Julien Eymard, advises Rodin to leave the order and pursue a career as a sculptor.
1864
Rodin meets Rose Beuret, a twenty-four-year-old seamstress who becomes his lifelong companion. Their stormy relationship inspires a number of the sculptor's most dramatic works.
Rodin begins work in the studio of the successful sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824–1887). During the six years Rodin assists Carrier-Belleuse, his independent sculptural work is influenced by his employer.
1866
Rodin and Rose Beuret's son, Auguste-Eugène Beuret, is born on January 18.
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Rodin enlists in the 158th Regiment of the National Guard and attains the rank of corporal during the Franco-Prussian War, but is soon discharged for nearsightedness.
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Rodin joins his former employer Carrier-Belleuse in Brussels; Rose arrives the following year.
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In Brussels, Rodin enters a partnership with sculptor Antoine Van Rasbourg (Belgian, 1831–1902), another former employee of Carrier-Belleuse. Brussels Rodin exhibits Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose at the Brussels Salon.
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Rodin begins work on a figure that later becomes known as The Age of Bronze and exhibits a modified version of Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose in marble at the Paris Salon.
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Rodin visits Rome, Florence, and Naples, where he begins an in-depth study of the work and artistic principles of the Renaissance artist Michelangelo (Italian, 1475–1564).
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Drypoint
La Ronde - Original Etching by A. Rodin - 1905
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Roma, IT
La Ronde is an original Modern Artwork realized in the first years of the XX Century by Auguste Rodin, in full François-Auguste-René Rodin, (Paris, 1840 — Meudon, 1917).
Original B/...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Auguste Rodin Art
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Etching
La Ronde - Original Etching by A. Rodin - 1905
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Roma, IT
La Ronde is an original Modern Artwork realized in the first years of the XX Century by Auguste Rodin, in full François-Auguste-René Rodin, (Paris, 1840 — Meudon, 1917).
Original B/...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Auguste Rodin Art
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Etching
Three mythological studies - Plate signed etching (1897)
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste RODIN (after)
Three mythological studies
MEDIUM : Etching/photogravures after the original drawings
SIGNATURE : Printed signature in the plate
YEAR : 1897
PAPER : Vellum
SIZ...
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1890s Realist Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
Etching
Dante & Virgilus - Etching, (Ed. Goupil, 1897)
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, FR
ARTISTE: after Auguste RODIN
TITLE : Dante & Virgilus
MEDIUM : Etching/photogravure after the original drawing
SIGNATURE : Unsigned
YEAR : 1897
PAPER : Vellum
SIZE : 13 x 10"
INFOR...
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1890s Academic Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
Etching
Two Nudes - Lithograph and stencil
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste RODIN (after)
Two Nudes (1920)
Lithograph and Stencil
Limited to 200 copies not numbered
On thin vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11")
INFORMATIONS : Bears the blind stamp of th...
Category
1920s Modern Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Antonin Proust
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Auguste Rodin, 'Antonin Proust', etching, 1897. Unsigned as published in Pan 3, no.3 (1897). Annotated 'AUGUST RODIN, ANTONIN PROUST ORIGINAL RADIERUNG PAN III 3' in letterpress in the bottom left sheet edge. A fine impression, on cream, wove paper, with wide margins (3 3/4 to 5 3/4 inches). Two spots of foxing in the upper left margins, well away from the image, otherwise in good condition. Image size 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches; plate size 9 3/8 x 7 inches; sheet size 14 x 11 inches.
Published in Pan III 3, 1897, the leading German magazine of the period devoted to art and literature. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Reproduced: German Expressionist Prints...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
Etching
Les Ames du Purgatoire, by Auguste Rodin
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917)
Title: Les Ames du Purgatoire
Medium: Drypoint in brown ink on laid paper, printed signature in the ...
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1890s Impressionist Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
Drypoint
Victor Hugo - Original Etching by A. Rodin - 1889
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Roma, IT
Edition "Gazette des Beaux-Arts". Artist's Proof.
Catalogue Delteil n. 7.
Includes passepartout (cm. 49x34).
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any art...
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1880s Post-Impressionist Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
Etching
Three mythological studies - Plate signed etching (1897)
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste RODIN (after)
Three mythological studies
MEDIUM : Etching/photogravures after the original drawings
SIGNATURE : Plate signed
YEAR : 1897
PAPER : Vellum
SIZE : 16 x 12"
INFO...
Category
1890s Realist Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
Etching
Three mythological studies (1897)
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste RODIN (after)
Three mythological studies
MEDIUM : Etching/photogravures after the original drawings
SIGNATURE : Plate signed
YEAR : 1897
PAPER : Vellum
SIZE : 16 x 12"
INFO...
Category
1890s Realist Auguste Rodin Art
Materials
Fabric, Etching
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