All Auguste Rodin's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
44993 Eve Eve mk183 Bronze green and brown patina
38631 Man and his Thought Man and his Thought mk138 1899/1900 Marble 77x46x55cm
33224 Nude with drapery Nude with drapery mk85 c.1904
38630 The Iron Age The Iron Age mk138 1875/76 Bronze 180x66x52cm
Auguste Rodin
French Sculptor, 1840-1917 .French sculptor. Insolvent and repeatedly rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts, he earned his living by doing decorative stonework. Not until his late 30s, after a trip to Italy, did he develop a personal style free of academic restraints and establish his reputation as a sculptor with The Age of Bronze (exhibited 1878), whose realism was so great that he was accused of forming its mold on a living person. His Gates of Hell, a bronze door commissioned in 1880 for a proposed Musee des Arts Decoratifs, remained unfinished at his death, but two of its many figures were the bases of his most famous images, The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (1886). His portraits include monumental figures of Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac. Though these and many other works caused controversy for their unconventionality, he was successful enough that he could establish a workshop where he executed only molds, leaving the casting of bronze and the carving of marble to assistants. To his sculpture he added book illustrations, etchings, and numerous drawings, mostly of female nudes. . Related Artists to : | Matthias Grunewald | Peter Tillemans | William Blamire Young | Charles Hawthorne | PRETI, Mattia |