Guide to the Musée Rodin Collections

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Fully illustrated with Auguste Rodin’s major works, this first Guide to the Musée Rodin Collections will accompany visitors on an unprecedented tour of the museum, encompassing not only sculptures in marble (The Kiss, Danaïd…), bronze (The Gates of Hell, The Thinker…) and plaster (Monument to the Burghers of Calais…), but also lesser-known drawings, engravings and paintings by the artist to which the public seldom have access, for reasons of conservation and lack of space. It also presents a symbolic selection of masterpieces and documents belonging to Rodin’s own collections: sculptures (Camille Claudel, Bourdelle…), paintings (Renoir, Van Gogh…), photographs (Eugène Druet, Steichen…), archaeological collections, letters and other rarely published archive material. This comprehensive, informative guide thus indicates the rich diversity of the collections in the Musée Rodin, founded in 1916 on the sculptor’s own initiative.