- Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. According to Rodin...
- Monument to Balzac. Skip to main content. ... Monument to Balzac. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Cast by Alexis Rudier, 1935, for the museum collections.
- The Balzac bronze statue cast by Rodin is on blvd Raspail close to Luxembourg gardens. We came upon it while going to the Montparnasse tower.
- Monument to Balzac is a visual metaphor for the author’s energy and genius, yet when the plaster original was exhibited in Paris in 1898, it was widely attacked.
- Le Monument à Balzac (The Monument to Balzac) by Auguste Rodin was commissioned by the Société des Gens de Lettres, under the impetus of its president...
- The Monument to Balzac is a metaphor for power and brutality, as the artist sought to underline the persona of Balzac rather than the novelist's physical...
- In 1891, the Société des Gens de Lettres commissioned Rodin to create a monument to Balzac, who had died in 1850, for the Palais-Royal in Paris.
- In 1892, Rodin finished an outline for the 'Monument to Balzac', standing and draped. Years went by – Rodin had not finished his model yet.
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- Kinetic Public Art: 20th & 21st Centuries. Guide to Venice Beach Murals. Monument to Balzac (1897). Auguste Rodin.
