Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beekman Cannon, '34, to Paul Gauguin's sunlit Landscape at Le Pouldu, lent by Paul Mellon, '29. France leads the list with 99 entries; next is the U.S. with 42. Most represented artist in the show is Picasso, with eleven pieces, followed by Degas with ten, Rodin with six, and Matisse. Cézanne, Monet and Vuillard with five each. The most represented U.S. artist is Winslow Homer, with three. Only Yale alumnus shown: Reginald Marsh, '20, with East Tenth Street Jungle...
Included were the work of 19 Italians and five Frenchmen, all on their very best behavior. Rodin is represented by a terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...
When Spanish-born Jose de Creeft arrived as a student in Paris in 1905, only Rodin was turning out anything but the academic nudes and busts that dominated the galleries. Though he lived in the same building with Picasso and Juan Gris, De Creeft himself was at first deaf to the noises of rebellion. Like everyone else, he made his bland clay models and sent them off to be cast at a foundry. Then one night he went to his studio and smashed every model in the place. From that moment on, he became a pioneer in reviving the nearly...
...Turn of the Century, shows (for the first time outside an Amsterdam film archive) a sequence in which Mrs. Alfred Dreyfus leaves the Paris military prison where her husband was held. Right behind her is Emile Zola. Other strips of film show Pierre Renoir, Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, George Bernard Shaw, Sarah Bernhardt, Pavlova, Sacha Guitry, Edward VII, Czar Nicholas, Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Franz Josef, British Suffragette Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Leo Tolstoy, James M. Barrie...
...main hall opposite the broad winding stairway held Rodin's mighty and miserable Adam, an 8-ft.-high study in human splendor and spiritual loss. Opposite him, Maillol's Chained Liberty strainingly strode. Scattered about the palatial apartments were figures by Archipenko, Zadkine, Zorach, José de Creeft, Koren Der Harootian, Nathaniel Kaz, Viani, and Reg Butler. The study contained a miniature judges' bench in rosewood, serving as a pedestal for eleven Judges and Advocates by Daumier. In the garden Antoine Bourdelle's huge, agonized bronze Warrior hacked and thrust...