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‘I have drawn all my life. I began with drawing: I have never stopped drawing.’ – Auguste RodinAuguste Rodin: Drawings & Watercolours presents a panorama of Rodin’s graphic work, from the ‘black’ drawings contemporaneous with the Gates of Hell to his great watercolour nudes. It reproduces 350 of the most beautiful drawings held in the collection at the Musée Rodin, as well as some from the most important foreign collections, a considerable number of which are published here for the first time. Two in-depth essays analyse this compelling body of work, one studying the complex relationships between Rodin’s drawings and sculptures, the other the problems of attribution and the role of sensuality in his work.
Rodin’s rich, often sumptuous, graphic œuvre has until now been a little-known aspect of his art, yet is crucial to a full understanding of the great sculptor’s work. This book, the first on the subject in well over three decades, will be essential reading for Rodin’s many admirers everywhere.Antoinette Le Normand-Romain is a National Heritage curator, in charge of the sculptures at the Musée Rodin. She has written widely on sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries, and particularly on Rodin, on whom she has also curated many exhibitions. Christina Buley-Uribe is the author of Auguste Rodin: Watercolors From The Collection Of The Musée Rodin, Paris.
