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As Gabriel White notes in his acknowledgments “An exhibition of Rodin's work took place in London during the artist's lifetime at the private residence of the Duke of Westminster at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, in I9I4, and in I931 the Leicester Galleries exhibited eighty-one sculptures and thirty drawings. After that time interest in Rodin's work declined and he was virtually in eclipse for over twenty years when Roland, Browse & Delbanco put on the first of a series of exhibitions of small bronzes in 1953. Since then the band of his admirers has increased steadily among the young as well as the old. In America the revival came earlier, starting with a series of exhibitions staged by the late Curt Valentin, at the persuasion of the sculptor Lipchitz, and culminating in the large retrospective organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in I962. In France, exhibitions were held at the Musée Rodin, Paris, in 1950, at the Palais de la Méditerranée, Nice, in I96I and at the Musée du Louvre in 1962, while others were arranged for foreign capitals as, for instance, Tokyo in 196I.”
“Rodin is only now in the process of being rediscovered and of again being acknowledged as one of the great sculptors of all time. Considering the fame which his contemporaries have enjoyed for several decades - he was born in 1840, the same year as Monet, and died in 1917, the same year as Degas - he is still grossly undervalued. This is all the more extraordinary at a time when so many lesser figures of the Impressionist era have been dragged forth into the limelight and their significance blown up beyond their worth. Rodin has not yet reached the fame of sculptors such as Giacometti and Henry Moore, nor is his work prized as are the sculptures of Degas, Matisse, or certain pieces by Daumier. The reason for his neglect can only be explained by the fact that he is a frankly traditional artist, an academic sculptor in the very highest sense, and the reaction of taste which took place between the two world wars condemned academism out of hand so that the greatness of Rodin's qualities was overlooked and his gigantic stature disregarded.” – from the introduction by Lillian Browse
Title: Rodin - An Exhibition of Sculpture with some Drawings and Prints
Author: Introduction by Lillian Browse
Publisher: Arts Council, London
Publication date: 1966-67
Format: Softcover
Pages: 40pp.
Images: b/w Throughout
Condition: Very Good
Stock Number: RB05696 255
As Gabriel White notes in his acknowledgments “An exhibition of Rodin's work took place in London during the artist's lifetime at the private residence of the Duke of Westminster at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, in I9I4, and in I931 the Leicester Galleries exhibited eighty-one sculptures and thirty drawings. After that time interest in Rodin's work declined and he was virtually in eclipse for over twenty years when Roland, Browse & Delbanco put on the first of a series of exhibitions of small bronzes in 1953. Since then the band of his admirers has increased steadily among the young as well as the old. In America the revival came earlier, starting with a series of exhibitions staged by the late Curt Valentin, at the persuasion of the sculptor Lipchitz, and culminating in the large retrospective organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in I962. In France, exhibitions were held at the Musée Rodin, Paris, in 1950, at the Palais de la Méditerranée, Nice, in I96I and at the Musée du Louvre in 1962, while others were arranged for foreign capitals as, for instance, Tokyo in 196I.”
“Rodin is only now in the process of being rediscovered and of again being acknowledged as one of the great sculptors of all time. Considering the fame which his contemporaries have enjoyed for several decades - he was born in 1840, the same year as Monet, and died in 1917, the same year as Degas - he is still grossly undervalued. This is all the more extraordinary at a time when so many lesser figures of the Impressionist era have been dragged forth into the limelight and their significance blown up beyond their worth. Rodin has not yet reached the fame of sculptors such as Giacometti and Henry Moore, nor is his work prized as are the sculptures of Degas, Matisse, or certain pieces by Daumier. The reason for his neglect can only be explained by the fact that he is a frankly traditional artist, an academic sculptor in the very highest sense, and the reaction of taste which took place between the two world wars condemned academism out of hand so that the greatness of Rodin's qualities was overlooked and his gigantic stature disregarded.” – from the introduction by Lillian Browse
Title: Rodin - An Exhibition of Sculpture with some Drawings and Prints
Author: Introduction by Lillian Browse
Publisher: Arts Council, London
Publication date: 1966-67
Format: Softcover
Pages: 40pp.
Images: b/w Throughout
Condition: Very Good
Stock Number: RB05696 255