Auguste Rodin (born François-Auguste-René Rodin. 1840-1917) was a French sculptor. Hes teacher were Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran.
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Musee Rodin |
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| Buste De Georges Clemenceau |
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| Bust, Monument to W. E. Henley |
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| L'âge d'airain |
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| Plâtre |
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| Ugolin, Ugolino della Gheradesca |
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| The Walking Man. c. 1900 |
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| Madame X. 1907 |
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Heroic Head of Pierre de Wiessant,
One of the Burghers of Calais |
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| Portrait of William E. Henley |
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| Portrait of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes |
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| Jean de Fiennes |
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| Pierre de Wissant, Nude, 1884-95 |
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| Illusions fallen to Earth |
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Plâtre, 1909 (Salon de la Société Nationale
des Beaux-Arts de 1910) |
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| Aime Jules Dalou. 1883 |
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| Brother and Sister |
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| Auguste Rodin - The Rape of Hippodamia |
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| Buste De Bellone |
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| Adam |
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| Buste de Gustave Geoffroy (1855-1926) |
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| Honoré de Balzac. 1891 |
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| Jean d'Aire from the Burghers of Calais |
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| Head of Pierre de Wissant. 1889 |
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| Head of Mrs. John Peter Russell. 1888 |
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| Head of Arthur Jerome Eddy. 1898 |
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Etude pour le saint Jean-Baptiste,
vu de face |
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| Cybele, Petit Modele |
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Celle Quit Fut La Belle Heaulmiere.
Sold for 170,000 dollars at Sothebys |
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Nude study of Eustache de
Saint-Pierre. 1886-87 |
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| Miss Eve Fairfax |
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| Masque d'Hanako |
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| Marcelin Berthelot. 1905 |
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Main Gauche No.31,
Petit Modele |
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| Main De Rodin Tenant un Torse Type A |
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| Le Baiser. Sold for 311,000 dollars at Sothebys |
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| La Grande Main Crispee |
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| Victor Hugo assis sur le rocher, seul |
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| Toilette of Venus |
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| Thomas Fortune Ryan. 1910 |
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| The Shade. 1888 |
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Tete d'Eustache de Saint-Pierre
Etude Type A Grand Modele |
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Tete De l'Homme au Nez Casse.
Sold for 60,000 at Sothebys |
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| St. John the Baptist Preaching. c. 1880 |
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| Self Portrait |
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Portrait of Victor Hugo, Three-quarter
View. 1884 |
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| Portrait of Jean-Paul Laurens |
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| Portrait of Carrier-Belleuse. 1907 |
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| Victor Hugo, Three-quarters View. 1885 |
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| Auguste Rodin. 1876 |
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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.
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