French sculptor

Study of a hand Auguste Rodin

Herbert List (1903-1975), Henri Laurens, Paris, France, 1949

Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), Iris, messagère des Dieux, inscribed A. Rodin, bronze, height: 82.9cm. 32 5/8 in. Executed in 1890-91. This work is a life-time cast and was cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry between 1902 and 1905. Estimate: £6,000,000-8,000,000. Photo: Sotheby's.

Auguste Rodin

The Metropolitan Museum's Rodins sparked the initial enthusiasm of one of the great collectors of the art of the French sculptor. In a spirit of reciprocity, B. Gerald Cantor and his wife, Iris, gave more than thirty sculptures by Rodin to the Museum during the 1980s

By Marie Madelaine Gautier

Odalisque (1841) sculpture by Swiss born French sculptor, Jean Jaques Pradier.

Style of Augustin Pajou | Torchère figure (one of a pair) | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ossip Zadkine, (born July 14, 1890, Smolensk, Russia—died November 25, 1967, Paris, France), Russian-born French sculptor known for his dramatic Cubist-inspired sculptures of the human figure. As a boy, Zadkine, the son of a professor of Greek and Latin, preferred clay modeling to his studies. In 1905 his father sent him to stay with relatives in England in order to learn “English and good manners.” He attended art school and eventually worked for a wooden-ornament maker in London. After…

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Camille Claudel par Auguste Rodin (1870s) Detail

The Thinker, Rodin, 1880 (cast in 1904). A masterpiece by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, who became a symbol of the philosopher