Rodin

[roh-dan, -dan, raw-dan]

noun

1. (François) Auguste (René) 1840–1917, French sculptor.

Rodin

/ rɔdɛ̃ /

noun

1. Auguste (oɡyst). 1840–1917, French sculptor, noted for his portrayal of the human form. His works include The Kiss (1886), The Burghers of Calais (1896), and The Thinker (1905)

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My mind wanders to Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker,” juggling imagination, judgment and problem solving.

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A small marble sculpture thought to be a copy of the French artist Auguste Rodin's work has turned out to be the real thing, selling for almost $1m at an auction in France on Monday.

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But the woman in her sculpture, made early in her tenure working in the busy studio of Auguste Rodin, leaves classicism far behind.

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Her art influenced her titanic mentor, Auguste Rodin.

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There’s a stunning and compact portrait-bust of Rodin, in which the focused concentration of his life-size head seems to rise up out of a tumult below, represented by his lengthy, swirling, thickly tangled beard.

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