A Centenary and Recent Discoveries Shine a Spotlight on Rodin.
'The centenary of the death of Auguste Rodin, France’s most celebrated sculptor, is this year. To honor the milestone, the Rodin Museum and the cultural umbrella organization Réunion des Musées Nationaux have combined to mount a retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris that opened March 22. It includes more than 200 of Rodin’s works, as well as sculptures and drawings by later artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Georg Baselitz and Antony Gormley, giving a wider context for his legacy.
At the same time, the market for Rodin in this centenary year has been buoyed by recent discoveries. On March 31, the auctioneers Gestas & Carrère in southwest France unveiled a plaster model for the sculpture “I Am Beautiful” from about 1885 that it had found, or rather rediscovered, last year in a furniture storage facility in Biarritz, France.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/arts/art-market-auguste-rodin.html?
