DALLAS TWP. — When French sculptor Auguste Rodin was working on a figure of writer Honorè de Balzac, he was determined to create as realistic a likeness as possible. But de Balzac had died decades ...

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Extended to the end of September due to popular demand, this profound and powerful show of important works by the “father of modern sculpture” is a must-see. Years in the making, Bowman Sculpture’s ...

With his imposing Monument to Balzac, completed after seven years of protracted labor, distractions, and numerous preliminary sketches, Rodin realized perhaps his most radical and self-expressive ...

Signed A. Rodin, numbered n°7 and inscribed © by Musée Rodin 1974 and with foundry mark Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris, with repeat raiser interior signature ...

We begin with the first work to enter an American museum, the harshly modeled bronze “Bust of St. John the Baptist” (1880), given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1893. That year, Rodin exhibited ...