Auguste Rodin, renowned as a sculptor, was also a magnificent draughtsman, a fact often overlooked today, though certainly not in the artist's own lifetime. His achievement in the graphic media has been obscured not only by his reputation as a sculptor but also because his work has inspired an almost unprecedented number of forgeries, some even dating from before his death in 1917. These forgeries ae to be found in public and private collections around the world; they have discouraged true appreciation, serious analysis, and any extensive display and reproduction of what the artist himself considered the basis of his art.THE DRAWINGS OF RODIN, an authoritative study by four Rodin specialists, re-establishes and confirms the artist's skill as a draughtsman and clarifies problems of dating and authenticity. Albert Elsen discusses the relation of the drawings to Rodin's sculpture, their thematic content, their style, and their contribution to the history of art. J. Kird T. Varnedoe presents a carefully reasoned chronology of the drawings, based on stylistic considerations, biographical data, and statements by the artist. The task is cogently executed, despite the fact that Rodin worked in several styles throughout every phase of his career, and Mr. Varnedoe establishes a firm basis for his subsequent chapter on the forgeries. In this brilliant piece of analysis, the characteristics by which individual forgers reveal themselves are pinpointed and elucidated by close comparisons between fakes and authentic drawings. Two supplementary essays by Victoria Thorson and Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler throw new light on hitherto neglected aspects of Rodin's graphic oeuvre. Mrs. Thorson contributes an iconographical study of the later drawings, pointing up some of the complexities of Rodin's thought and modes of expression during this period of synthesis. Mrs. Geissbuhler offers the fruit of an ambitious study of hundreds of rodin's architectural sketches and their sources.

The Drawings of Rodin

AUGUSTE RODIN

Elek Books Ltd.

Rodin Museum of Paris

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The Passion of Rodin: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection

Knoxville Museum of Art

Written in 1912, "Venus" is sculptor Auguste Rodin'€™s passionate ode to one of art€'s great masterpieces, the Venus de Milo, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. This new, expanded edition of Rodin's unique text, also includes "The Dance of Shiva", Rodin's loose, written impressions of a bronze statue of the Hindu god Shiva.This is Dorothy Dudley's original, authorized English translation of "Venus" from 1912. "The Dance of Shiva" was newly translated by Tina A. Kover in 2009.

Venus

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Hol Art Books

From the publisher: "Auguste Rodin brought monumental public sculpture forward into the modern era. Although educated in the academic traditions and idealized subjects of classical and Renaissance sculpture, he embraced truth to nature as his artistic credo. His uncanny ability to imbue inert substances with movement and feeling reveals the idiosyncrasies and psychological depths of the human subjects that he portrayed. His agile use of form and the bravura of his modeling in pursuit of turbulent, light-catching surfaces have established him as one of the progenitors of modern sculpture. Three monumental sculptures spanning the last thirty years of Rodin's career represent the force and vigor of his approach, which emphasized the quality of flesh while suggesting emotion through detailed, textured surfaces and the interplay of light and shadow upon them. The Three Shades (c. 1880), from the private collection of Iris Cantor, is an introspective group study in which the standing figure of Adam from The Gates of Hell is repeated in shifting perspective; Monument to Victor Hugo (1897), on loan from the renowned Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, is a stirring meditation on artist and muse, a roiling figure composition that depicts the great artist deep in thought; The Whistler Muse (1908), on loan from the Musée Rodin, was intended to honour a commission in tribute to the American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler who had requested not to be physically represented - in response Rodin chose the symbolic image of the muse. Rendered like a classical fragment, the armless female figure attempts to climb a mountain in an allegory of the challenge of artistic creation. Rodin's sculptures are shown here in unexpected and unprecedented combination with a series of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of the world's most admired living photographers."

Rodin - Sugimoto

Wayne, Kenneth

Hiroshi, Sugimoto

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