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“The Thinker” Returns to Stanford and More

The University of Laverne’s Harris Art Gallery is hosting a superb small show of Rodin sculpture. Organized by the Foundation and comprised of works from the collections of both the Foundation and Iris Cantor, the exhibition of 25 Rodin bronzes and two bronze portrait busts of Rodin may be seen at this Southern California university until March 29.  Foundation Executive Director Judith Sobol gave a private gallery tour for University VIPs prior to the opening, and reports she is impressed by the exhibition’s beautiful installation – kudos to Gallery Director Dion Johnson! – and cogent small catalogue with its essay by University art historian Jon Leaver. [caption id="attachment_648" align="aligncenter" width="500"] University of Laverne[/caption] The Brooklyn Museum of Art has opened a fascinating exhibition of sculpture by Rachel Kneebone – and by Auguste Rodin.  The London-based artist’s large-scale porcelain human forms are paired with 15 iconic Rodins selected by her from the Museum’s collection, all gifts from...

February 17, 2012
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Spotlight on “Three Faunesses”

Now on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Rodin’s Three Faunesses is a titillating and revealing example of the delight the sculptor took in his work and of the way in which he created his finished pieces. The bronze, just over 9 inches tall, is an assemblage – in this case the repetition of a single figure, making an entirely new piece.  The fauness began her life about 1882 as a small but provocative detail of The Gates of Hell.  Sometime before 1896 Rodin replicated the plaster figure three times, then combined the three figures in a circle to make a new bronze independent of The Gates.  The Foundation’s authorized posthumous cast was made by the Georges Rudier Foundry in 1959. A fauness is a creature from Roman mythology (like a satyress), a minor and sensual rural goddess who usually has the body of a woman and the tail and ears of a goat. Rodin’s figures are entirely...

January 17, 2012
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New Year’s Update: Happy 2012

A major installation of more than 40 Rodin sculptures from the Foundation collection and from Iris Cantor’s personal collection, continues at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City (see photo of sculpture during installation).  The show will be up through 2013 and is only the second exhibition to be installed in the lobby of the Museum's highly celebrated Bloch Building.  The loans center on Rodin's The Gates of Hell, his sculptures of hands, and his monuments to the Burghers of Calais, Balzac, Claude Lorrain, et. al. The Museum is providing its visitors with digital, smartphone, and mobile guides to the works on view. Last June a small exhibition of Rodin sculpture opened at the Laguna College of Art + Design.  This show was recently named one of the top ten exhibitions in Southern California in 2011 by The Orange County Register.  This accolade is remarkable when you see which institutions presented the other winning...

January 17, 2012
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Autumn Updates from Cantor Foundation

Autumn has been a busy time for the Foundation, with special programs centering on Foundation gifts to museums, loans of artworks, openings of scholarly exhibitions accompanied by catalogues funded by the Foundation, and receptions for Foundation-sponsored shows. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation is sponsoring an exhibition and catalogue featuring the Museum's superb Alfred Stieglitz Collection. At the beginning of the 20th century, Stieglitz (1864-1946) was America's pioneering dealer in modern art. His collection includes works by O'Keeffe, Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Kandinsky, Hartley, Marin, Demuth and Dove. The show, which is on view until January 2, 2012, is the first time the Met's entire Stieglitz Collection -- including many works on paper that are rarely on view -- will be exhibited together, although the collection was acquired by the Met in 1949. At the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco's Legion of Honor, visitors are...

October 17, 2011
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Spotlight on “Monument to Victor Hugo”

Victor Hugo was France’s most revered and popular nineteenth century writer and poet.  He was passionately admired by the French of the Third Republic also for the position he took opposing the Second Empire and in support of the ill-fated Commune of 1879.  The public commission for a monument to Hugo was eagerly sought by Rodin and others.  It was to be placed in Paris’ Pantheon, a monumental classical building, and would bring fame and fortune to the artist whose design was chosen.  In September of 1889 Rodin won the commission. The Cantor cast is of Rodin’s fourth study for the monument; it was submitted to the commissioners in 1895/6.  It shows the nude Victor Hugo on the rocks of Guernsey, the island where he went into self-imposed exile to escape the political turmoil of Paris and to mourn the death of his daughter.  Behind the poet, whispering in his ears,...

January 17, 2011
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