Friday, August 6, 2010

Rodin

Auguste Rodin (born François-Auguste-René Rodin. 1840-1917) was a French sculptor. Hes teacher were Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran.
Wikipedia article
Artcyclopedia page
Musee Rodin
Buste De Georges Clemenceau
Bust, Monument to W. E. Henley
L'âge d'airain
Plâtre
Ugolin, Ugolino della Gheradesca
The Walking Man. c. 1900
Madame X. 1907
Heroic Head of Pierre de Wiessant,
One of the Burghers of Calais
Portrait of William E. Henley
Portrait of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Jean de Fiennes
Pierre de Wissant, Nude, 1884-95
Illusions fallen to Earth
Plâtre, 1909 (Salon de la Société Nationale
des Beaux-Arts de 1910)

Aime Jules Dalou. 1883
Brother and Sister
Auguste Rodin - The Rape of Hippodamia
Buste De Bellone

Adam
Buste de Gustave Geoffroy (1855-1926)
Honoré de Balzac. 1891
Jean d'Aire from the Burghers of Calais
Head of Pierre de Wissant. 1889
Head of Mrs. John Peter Russell. 1888
Head of Arthur Jerome Eddy. 1898
Etude pour le saint Jean-Baptiste,
vu de face
Cybele, Petit Modele
Celle Quit Fut La Belle Heaulmiere.
Sold for 170,000 dollars at Sothebys
Nude study of Eustache de
Saint-Pierre. 1886-87
Miss Eve Fairfax
Masque d'Hanako
Marcelin Berthelot. 1905
Main Gauche No.31,
Petit Modele
Main De Rodin Tenant un Torse Type A
Le Baiser. Sold for 311,000 dollars at Sothebys
La Grande Main Crispee
Victor Hugo assis sur le rocher, seul
Toilette of Venus
Thomas Fortune Ryan. 1910
The Shade. 1888
Tete d'Eustache de Saint-Pierre
Etude Type A Grand Modele
Tete De l'Homme au Nez Casse.
Sold for 60,000 at Sothebys
St. John the Baptist Preaching. c. 1880
Self Portrait
Portrait of Victor Hugo, Three-quarter
View. 1884
Portrait of Jean-Paul Laurens
Portrait of Carrier-Belleuse. 1907
Victor Hugo, Three-quarters View.  1885
Auguste Rodin. 1876

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Such beautiful, inspired work. No need to state that Rodin was a genius, he was more than that: the bronze or marble is literally imbued with the spirits of his subjects. He was an alchemist, a magician, a necromancer perhaps.