Known in France as a giant of modernist sculpture, to the rest of the world Camille Claudel is mainly remembered as Auguste Rodin’s lover. Works from Rodin’s studio, where she toiled from the age of ...
For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The story of French sculptress Camille Claudel is almost impossibly sad, and Juliette Binoche attempts to portray that tragedy in a new film set in an asylum where the actress ...
It’s a story ready-made for a television series. In the late 19th century, a young, talented and beautiful French woman begins working in the Paris studio of an older, celebrated sculptor and becomes ...
CHICAGO — Some artists are so personally magnetic, their biographies so engrossing, that their lives overshadow their art. It’s an old problem that becomes most acute when the artist has died young, ...
What are we to make of the sculptor Camille Claudel (1864–1943), Rodin’s student, assistant, and mistress, who spent the last half of her life in an insane asylum, dying a virtual unknown? To be sure, ...
The French sculptor and lover of Rodin is the subject of a major new exhibition that includes roughly 60 works. By Jordan Riefe Known in France as a giant of modernist sculpture, to the rest of the ...