Lot no. 28
[Auguste RODIN]. Gustave KAHN (1859-1936). 2 autograph MANUSCRITS.
- Rodin (The man and his work) (16 pages in-4, the end is missing): "Rodin's house overlooks a bend in the Seine which gullies between the hills of Meudon and Issy. [...] Rodin is not modest and he has no reason to be modest; the fierceness of his struggle against the nude, the mastery with which he has gone beyond the ordinary degrees of art to arrive at an intuition and a complete possession of the language of the human form, have rid him of these stammering timidities"...
- Rodin's fundamental research was to give the immobile and monochrome art of the sculptor as much movement and colour as possible, through the arrangement of the planes of the statue"... (7 pages in-8, unfinished?).
There are 4 autograph fragments (one signed).
Expert: Mr Thierry Bodin
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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