Auguste Rodin ART FOR SALE

1840 Paris, France - 1917 Meudon, France. Known for: Realistic figural sculpture.

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A Frenchman whose modernist style redefined sculpture in the 19th century, Auguste Rodin moved it from Academic and Neo-Classical to Impressionism and Realism. In fact, he did work that was so life-like, he was accused of making casts from live bodies. He also dealt with erotic and political themes that spoke of contemporary issues eschewed as inapprpriate by fine art academics of his era. Rodin was raised in a hard working, religious family in Mouffetard, an historic section of Paris. He was born in 1840, shortly after his parents, Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, had moved from the countryside to the city, where his father had a job as a clerk in the police department. Rodin had difficulty with school subjects, but from childhood... Read full biography

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Auguste Rodin - "Tête de la Pleureuse"

Type:Sculpture

Medium:Bronze

Signed:Inscribed

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Auguste Rodin "Tête de la Pleureuse" (Head of the Weeping Woman)." Bronze with dark brown patina, raised on a square onyx plinth, (H: 13 inches). Signed "A. Rodin" lower right, foundry mark "Alexis RUDIER/Fondeur PARIS" on the lower back. Available at auction moisanauctions.com March 14 lot 542

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