Editing Auguste Rodin (section)

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[[File:Rodin Reclining woman.jpg|alt=Pencil and watercolor depiction of a nude reclining woman.|thumb|right|upright|''Reclining Woman'' (1890s) in the [[National Museum, Warsaw]]]]

The popularity of Rodin's most famous sculptures tends to obscure his total creative output. A prolific artist, he created thousands of busts, figures, and sculptural fragments over more than five decades. He painted in [[Oil painting|oils]] (especially in his thirties) and in [[Watercolor painting|watercolors]]. The Musée Rodin holds 7,000 of his drawings and prints, in [[chalk]] and [[charcoal]], and thirteen vigorous [[drypoint]]s.<ref>Hale, 12.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Early Drawings by Auguste Rodin|author=Varnedoe, Kirk|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=116|issue=853|date=April 1974|pages=197–204}}</ref>

Portraiture was an important component of Rodin's oeuvre, helping him to win acceptance and financial independence.<ref>Hale, 82.</ref> His first sculpture was a bust of his father in 1860, and he produced at least 56 portraits between 1877 and his death in 1917.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Rodin and His English Sitters|first=Marion J.|last=Hare|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=129|issue=1011|year=1987|pages=372–81}}</ref> Early subjects included fellow sculptor [[Jules Dalou]] (1883)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Auguste Rodin {{!}} Jules Dalou (1838–1902) |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/191806 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}</ref> and companion Camille Claudel (1884).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Camille Claudel |url=https://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/resources/rodin-and-artists/camille-claudel |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=[[Musée Rodin]]}}</ref>

Later, with his reputation established, Rodin made busts of prominent contemporaries such as English politician [[George Wyndham]] (1905),<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Wyndham |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/192373 |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=[[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]]}}</ref> Irish playwright [[George Bernard Shaw]] (1906),<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Bernard Shaw |url=https://static.nationaltrust.org.uk/waf/waf.html?_event_transid=629348403 |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=National Trust Collections}}</ref> socialist (and former mistress of the Prince of Wales who became King Edward VII) [[Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick|Countess of Warwick]] (1908),<ref>{{Cite book|title=Portraits of a lady|last=David|first=Buttery|date=1988|publisher=Brewin Books|isbn=0947731431|location=Studley, Warwickshire|oclc=26723104}}</ref> Austrian composer [[Gustav Mahler]] (1909),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Auguste Rodin {{!}} Gustav Mahler |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/490027 |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}</ref> former Argentine president [[Domingo Faustino Sarmiento]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=President Sarmiento |url=https://rodinmuseum.org/collection/object/103433 |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=[[Rodin Museum]] |language=en}}</ref> and French statesman [[Georges Clemenceau]] (1911).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Georges Clemenceau |url=https://rodinmuseum.org/collection/object/103432 |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Rodin Museum |language=en}}</ref>

His undated drawing ''Study of a Woman Nude, Standing, Arms Raised, Hands Crossed Above Head'' is one of the works seized in 2012 from the collection of [[Cornelius Gurlitt (art collector)|Cornelius Gurlitt]].<ref name=spiegel>{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-munich-nazi-art-stash-revealed-fotostrecke-103675-18.html|title=Photo Gallery: Munich Nazi Art Stash Revealed|date=17 November 2013|work=Spiegel|access-date=17 November 2013|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203015504/http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-munich-nazi-art-stash-revealed-fotostrecke-103675-18.html|url-status=live}}</ref>