Auguste Rodin's audacious conceptions inspire the enthusiasm…
1898 CE
His delays and his design for the statue of Balzac bring on a legal dispute with the Société des Gens de Lettres, and, when the model is shown at the 1898 Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, it generates a violent debate in which the fifty-eight-year-old sculptor is defended by journalist Georges Clemenceau (the future premier of France).
Finally Rodin reimburses the Société and takes back the model. (The statue, cast in bronze, will not be erected until 1939, in the crossroads of the Montmartre section of Paris.)
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Balzac is a bronze statue made by Auguste Rodin in 1898. It was commissioned in 1891 by the Societé des Gens des Lettres, and was presented at the Salon of 1898. The Symbolist representation of Honoré
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