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...Want to Flourish." Outwardly, Gwen John was as reticent as her painting. Inwardly, her life was one of intense feeling, rebellion and search. She was a spinster who became the mistress of Sculptor Auguste Rodin, an agnostic who turned to the Roman Catholic Church. In his new book, Modern English Painters, published last week, Sir John Rothenstein devotes a chapter to Gwen John, tells much of her story for the first time...
...Paris goldsmith who taught him to cast elaborate table pieces for the rich. Rudier wanted a wider medium. At 19, he set up shop for himself and began casting statues in bronze. Soon he had a small but devoted following-and an introduction to the great Auguste Rodin...
...Rodin," recalls the maitre, "was not particularly friendly. He asked me a few questions and then handed me a bust-by another sculptor." Rudier worked long hours forming the mold of sand, tapping, carving and measuring it to exact proportions, finally cast the sculpture in a single piece of bronze. "When I returned with the finished product, Rodin looked at it for a long time and caressed it with his fingers. All he said was 'excellent.'" But from that moment on, until the sculptor's death in 1917, Rudier was the only caster allowed to touch...
...same painstaking effort. The only favoritism he allowed himself was in the works he chose for his country home outside Paris and the figures lining his tiny gallery at Malakoff. There he collected such masterpieces as Maillol's Summer, Renoir's Laundress, Bourdelle's Heracles Archer, Rodin's John the Baptist. About 20 years ago, he cast a beautiful bronze of Rodin's L'Ombre, and ordered it set aside to mark his grave when he dies...
...factory last week, the orders were piling in. Lean and a little tired with age, Rudier walked through his foundry, supervising blue-overalled workers as they put the finishing touches to a massive statue by Henri Laurens for the Paris Museum of Modern Art. There was a casting of Rodin's huge Gate of Hell to be shipped 13,000 miles to a Tokyo museum, a repair job on three nymphs and two water-spouting dragons from Versailles' fountains, an order from Rotterdam to cast a statue by Zadkine commemorating the city's ordeal under Nazi bombs...