Rachael Blackburn

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Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo

Rachael Blackburn; Ruth Butler; Auguste Rodin; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Jane Mayo Roos; N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York; Portland Art Museum (Or.); Jeanine Parisier Plottel; Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

Synopsis:
The extraordinary and prolific career of Victor Hugo was memorialized by the master sculptor Auguste Rodin in his commanding Monument to Victor Hugo, depicting Hugo's powerful figure seated in contemplation with his inspirational Meditation and his Tragic Muse on either side. The first cast of this majestic bronze sculpture resides permanently in Paris, but the second cast has now been made accessible outside France in a major exhibition touring the United States (Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and New York), including 20 additional sculptures by Rodin, as well as works on paper. This elegantly produced volume and the exhibition have been organized as part of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation's ongoing mission to reveal the work of Auguste Rodin to a broader public audience.

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