Auguste Rodin offers to exchange a torso…
1891 CE
Auguste Rodin offers to exchange a torso of his own for Medardo Rosso's recent head of a laughing woman.
Rosso's work, praised by Edgar Degas, always enjoys greater esteem in France than in Italy.
Nevertheless, he has some influence on Italian painting and makes a powerful impact on Italian sculpture, which has remained virtually static since the time of the Neoclassicist Antonio Canova.
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Medardo Rosso: Laughing Woman (Large Version) c.1891, cast 1950s. Tate gallery, London
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Southwest Europe
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