Auguste Rodin Reading List

Recommended reading

Jennifer  Hawkins, Rodin Sculptures, VAM HMSO, London,  1975
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain The Gates of Hell, Musée Rodin, 2002
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rodin, translated J Lemont and H Trausil, Grey Walls Press Ltd, London, 1946
Albert E Elsen,  editor,  Rodin Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 28 June 1981 - 2 May 1982
Claudine Mitchell Rodin the Zola of Sculpture, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Rodin, 2006 exhibition catalogue. Major contributors Catherine Lampert and Antoinette Le Normand-Romain

Further Reading

Books
Ronald Alley, The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Tate Gallery, London, 1959
Albert, E. Elsen, Rodin's Gates of Hell, University of Minnesota, 1960
James Fenton, Leonardo's Nephew, Essays on Art and Artists, 'The Secrets of Maillol', pp160-184. Penguin paperback, 1999
Bénédicte Garnier, Rodin: Antiquity is my Youth, Musée Rodin, Paris, 2002
David J. Getsy, ed., Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c.1880-1930, (British art and visual culture since 1750: new readings), Ashgate , 2004
National Gallery of Art, Washington, European Sculpture of the 19th Century, Ruth Butler and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, OUP, 2000
Anne Pingeot, Sculpture in the Musée D'Orsay, Scala, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995
Iain Ross, and Anthea Snow, editors, Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession, Merrell Publishers Ltd, London, 2001
Athena Tacha Spear, Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967
Vilain, J; Judrin, C; Le Normand-Romain, A; Beausire, A; Pinet, H: Marraud, H Rodin and the Musée Rodin, Editions Scala, Paris, 1996
Victoria & Albert Museum, Catalogue of Sculpture by Auguste Rodin, HMSO, London, 1914
Victoria & Albert Museum, Catalogue of Sculpture by Auguste Rodin, HMSO, London, 1925
Paul Williamson, editor, European Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, pp 8, 19, 153, 178, VAM, London, 1996

Exhibition catalogues
Ann Elliot, Rodin in Lewes, Lewes Town Hall, 5 June-10 October 1999
Art Français, Exposition d'art decorative contemporain, 1800-1885, Grosvenor House, London, 1914
Albert E Elsen, Rodin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1963
Lampert, Catherine, Arts Council of Great Britain, Rodin Sculpture and Drawings, at the Hayward Gallery, 1 November 1986 - 25 January 1987, 1986
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec/Musée Rodin, Paris, Camille Claudel & Rodin: Fateful Encounter, Hazan, 2005
Musée Rodin, La Sculpture dans l'espace: Rodin, Brancusi, Giacometti, Paris, 2005
Tate Gallery, Venus Redefined: Sculpture by Rodin, Matisse and Contemporaries, 15 March 1994 - July 1995,
Jeanne L Wasserman, editor, Metamorphoses in 19th-Century Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1977

Articles
National Art Collections Fund, Review 1994, p 107
Joyce Newton, 'Rodin is a British Institution', Burlington Magazine, 136, December 1994, pp 822-8.

Archives
Victoria and Albert Museum Archive - registered papers for the acquisitions of works by Auguste Rodin and John Tweed
Musée Rodin, correspondence between Victoria and Albert Museum and Auguste Rodin