Item #178605 Auguste Rodin: Drawings and Watercolors. Auguste Rodin, Ernst-Gerhard Guse.
Auguste Rodin: Drawings and Watercolors
Auguste Rodin: Drawings and Watercolors

Auguste Rodin: Drawings and Watercolors

New York: Rizzoli, 1985. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with dark navy lettering on front and spine, tan dust jacket with color illustration, black lettering, bw two page frontispiece, 357 pp, 380 illustrations, including 48 in color. VG/VG (light wear to boards, corners rubbed. Pages otherwise very clean. Dust jacket has light shelf wear). Item #178605
ISBN: 9780847806256

"This exceptional publication includes nearly 200 works, the majority of which come from the Musée Rodin in Paris. Well-produced and meticulously documented, the catalogue entries are further illuminated by scores of photographs of Rodin's celebrated sculptures (including such masterworks as the "Balzac" -- in Steichen's celebrated photograph -- the headless "Striding Man", and the disturbingly powerful "Gates of Hell") of the sculptor himself throughout his career, and many of the important personalities with whom he was intimate, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, and Count Harry Kessler. Of special interest are comparative photographs of the actual structures that accompany the famous drawings of the French cathedrals. The catalogue entries of impeccable scholarship are here interwoven with the illustrations to create a stimulating biography of a master sculptor and an unique human being." -- From publisher's description. Contents include: The idea behind my works / Auguste Rodin -- Rodin's drawings : 1854-1880 / J. Kirk T. Varnedoe -- The gates of Hell / Claudie Judrin -- Rodin's drawings of architecture / Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler -- Rodin's drawings of the nineties : the transition period / Ernst-Gerhard Güse -- Rodin's late drawings and watercolors / J.A. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth -- The dancers of King Sisowath of Cambodia / Auguste Rodin -- The dance gesture in essence / Rainer Maria Rilke.

OCLC: 12313996

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