How Antoine Bourdelle emerged from the shadow of Auguste Rodin

Published on December 17, 2024 at 8:54 p.m.

4 mins. reading

Rodin/Bourdelle, meleeon display in Paris in the Montparnasse district, offers a confrontation between two giants of sculpture. Two giants, twenty years apart, who had consideration and admiration for each other, notwithstanding their stylistic differences.

It was in 1892 that Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), famous and celebrated, discovered the work of his younger brother Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) at the salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts and his Three Young Sisters, sculpture that catches his attention. Assailed with orders, the master then offers his young colleague, aged 31, to work for him. The author of Kiss has the habit of modeling his works in clay and then entrusting their reproduction in stone to practitioners. Depending on the year, he brings in between five and ten professionals… while maintaining the myth that he sculpts his own marbles.

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