Auguste Rodin: Drawings & Watercolors

Paris: Hazan, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/NF, minimal shelf wear to dust jacket. Color illustrated boards with white spine and identical dust jacket. 439 (1) pp. Profusely illustrated in color and some B&W. "This book provides a broad panorama of [Rodin's] work, from the 'black' drawings done while he was working on The Gates of Hell, to the large watercoloured nudes. The aim of reproducing 350 of the most beautiful drawings in the Musee Rodin's collection, including several never previously published works, was to give the public the fullest possible idea of Rodin's rich and often sumptuous output as a draughtsman. They are accompanied by a wide-ranging (truncated) study of the successive stages in his experimentation and the complex relationship between his drawings and sculpture and the problems of attribution and shifts in meaning in his work. The first reference work on Rodin's graphic work since 1971, this book therefore fills a gap all the larger given the many exhibitions which have since considerably enriched our knowledge of his drawings by exploring entire aspects of the corpus" -- from dust jacket. English translation of French original, "Auguste Rodin: Dessins et Aquarelles. (Inventory #: 178646)