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...Malakoff suburb, one small factory shines out like a beacon. Its neat brick walls are covered with vines; the windows are immaculately clean. Inside the red iron gate there is a courtyard filled with bronze statues. Plump Renoir and Maillol nudes stand side by side with muscular Bourdelle torsos, Rodin figures, and a host of lesserworks. On most of the statues, two names are inscribed. The first is the sculptor's; the second is that of the man who turned it into bronze, Eugene Rudier, the foundry's 74-year-old owner and the last of the world...
...half a century the white-bearded old master has stood unchallenged at the peak of his art. Every sculptor who could afford his stiff prices ($9,000 nowadays for a life-size figure) sent his work to Rudier. Maillol, Renoir, Bourdelle were all his clients; Rodin would have no other caster. Today, such outstanding European moderns as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine are on his list. An expert explains why: "Rudier is unique. He is an artist. He produces a grain and patina almost like human skin. The bronze seems alive...
...Auguste Rodin...
...zoned. Each zone has its own name and appropriate Work of Art. Zones of course vary in price, and within the zones the prices vary according to their proximity to the Work of Art . . There is Lovers' Nest, zoned about a very, very beautiful marble replica of Rodin's famous statue, The Kiss. We have double plots there at $750 the pair." -Evelyn Waugh, in The Loved...
Statues and drawings of August Rodin and several other sculptors influenced by him will be featured in an exhibition which opens today at the Fogg Museum...