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Rodin's Worst Work

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From: Jerusalem Post
Date: 19980102
Author:Meir Ronnen

Meir Ronnen
Jerusalem Post
01-02-1998
The Israel Museum has mounted a show of some 30 items from its collection of works by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), on the occasion of the loan of a recent bronze casting of Rodin's massive Monument to Victor Hugo.

The museum has touted this loan (from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation of Los Angeles, which commissioned the casting from the Coubertin Foundry) as the first time this work has been seen outside of Paris. But of course it isn't quite the real work at all, which was executed in marble a century earlier; nor did the long-dead sculptor have ...

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