Loans from Paris will form part of British Museum exhibition looking at the French sculptor’s passion for ancient Greek art The French sculptor Auguste Rodin is returning to the British Museum, which in his lifetime he visited so often he said he “haunted” it. His own works, and drawings he made on notepaper filched from his hotel just across the road, will be displayed beside some of the Parthenon marbles, which he regarded as the greatest works of art of all time. The loans coming from Paris, for the exhibition opening on 26 April, will include Rodin’s own copy of his most famous sculpture, The Kiss, a work seen as shockingly erotic in his day. The plaster cast, kept in his studio for the rest of his life, was made from the original marble, and later versions of the sculpture were copied. Continue reading...
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