Camille Claudel and Rodin

The Detroit Institute of Arts is the only U.S. venue for a stunning exhibition that brings two great artists together for the first time in America. Camille Claudel and Rodin: Fateful Encounter features over 130 masterworks in all media by these two leading sculptors, considered artistic geniuses in their own time, and also emphasizes the fascinating personal and artistic relationships between the two, represented with more than 50 related graphics, personal letters and period photographs. Claudel met Rodin in 1882 when she was barely 18 and he was 42. He recognized her talent and hired her to help with his two major monumental commissions: The Gates of Hell and The Burghers of Calais. She worked with him for over 10 years during which their relationship intensified, and the works from this period are eloquent testimony of their love and passion: Rodin’s Éternel printemps, I Am Beautiful; and Claudel’s Sakountala and The Waltz. Other masterpieces in the exhibition include Claudel’s Bust of Auguste Rodin, Clotho, and The Age of Maturity. Rodin’s Bust of Camille Claudel, Galatea, his life-size St. John the Baptist, and his monumental Balzac.

The exhibition was organized by Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec with Musée Rodin in Paris.

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Camille Claudel and Rodin FATEFUL ENCOUNTER
Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin