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...Salon won more fame in later years with major retrospective shows of the works of Courbet and Gauguin (1906), Corot (1909), Pissarro (1911). Rodin (1919) and Renoir (1920). After the liberation of Paris, the Salon reopened in 1945 with a gigantic Picasso retrospective...
London Art Dealer Gustav Delbanco picked up his telephone one day last week, heard a man's voice: "If you go to Room 24 in the Victoria and Albert Museum, you will find something." Delbanco promptly dispatched a messenger, who found something all right- the small (13-in.) Rodin bronze, Psyche, which was stolen four months ago. Tucked under the figurine was an envelope containing a letter and a ten-shilling note ($1.40). The letter started with some lines from W. B. Yeats's The Living Beauty...
...note continued: "There was no mercenary intent behind my abduction of this exquisite creature. I merely wished to live with her for a while. Auguste Rodin would have understood. The enclosed towards Le Baiser* is all I can afford. An Impecunious Art Student...
...Another Rodin work for whose purchase the Tate Gallery is raising a public subscription...
...outdoor exhibit is part of the museum's summer show, "Sculpture of the 20th Century" (TIME, Oct. 27), which also includes (indoors) such outstanding pieces as Rodin's St. John the Baptist, poised in mid-stride with arm upraised in beckoning command; a voluptuous Matisse nude and a light-as-air Degas dancer; less representational studies like Constantin Brancusi's shining, vertical Bird in Space and his monolithic marble Fish, which for all its solidity conveys a feeling of watery motion. The high quality of the show has helped keep the ticket-takers near the big glass...