RODIN in association with the Musée Rodin, Paris 15 September

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RODIN
in association with the Musée Rodin, Paris
15 September – 15 December 2006
Coskun is delighted to announce a major Rodin exhibition in association with Musée Rodin, to celebrate the launch of their new galleries at
91 Walton Street, London.
Coinciding with the Royal Academy’s Rodin in England, the exhibition represents an opportunity to acquire pieces from a selection of sixty
key works, including forty original bronzes that relate to such masterpieces as The Gates of Hell, Burghers of Calais and The Whistler
Monument; the museum versions of these works will be on show at the Royal Academy.
Many of the bronzes on display at Coskun are being released for sale for the first time in the UK, having been cast posthumously in editions
of twelve from moulds bequeathed by Rodin to the French State on his death in 1916. Gallery Director Gul Coskun worked with the Musée
Rodin’s board of directors to select new works for casting and these will feature in the show: Roméo et Juliette, Pygmalion et Galatée and
Polyphème et Acis.
Coskun has been representing The Musée Rodin in the UK for six years, driven by the desire to fulfil the artist’s dream for his works to
survive him and by a personal pledge to keep the Rodin legacy alive in this country. She says: ‘I knew that Rodin left his plasters to the
French Government so that the work he left would come to life. However, there was no one keeping Rodin alive in England so I
approached the Musée Rodin and explained my love for the work, offering to give it the platform it deserved in the UK. I hope that our new
increased gallery space and sculpture terrace will inspire visitors even more with Rodin’s powerful presence.’
Dominating the exhibition in Coskun’s new five metre high space will be the monumental Homme qui Marche sur Colonne, a striking
example of how Rodin took sculpture into the twentieth century, moving away from figuration and towards abstraction. Referencing this
break with tradition, he said of Homme qui Marche: “I was often blamed for not putting a head on the Walking Man; but does one walk with
one’s head?”
The Gates of Hell marks a turning point in Rodin’s career. The artist had modelled bodies by the hundreds for the Gate and some of these
became works in their own right. Coskun offers an unique opportunity to view these works at close quarters including Etude pour Ariane
and Etude pour l’Homme qui tombe, which appear to the right and left respectively of Le Penseur; Assemblage: Martyre et Femme
accroupie and Adéle Abruzzezzi, a figure that appears twice in The Gates scheme, posed for by the Italian peasant girl who was one of his
favourite models. The exhibition also includes important plasters and signature works such as Femme Nu Agenouillee (le Succube), Eternal
Printemps and Le Baiser that are well known to the general public.
Dominique Viéville, General Heritage Curator,Director of the Rodin Museum says
: ‘I wish to thank Gul Coskun for all her efforts to promote the oeuvre of Rodin in Britain for so many years, and express my firm conviction
that the exhibition she is presenting today will meet all the success it deserves’.
For further press enquiries and images please contact Theresa Simon Communications
+ 44 207 734 4800 [email protected]
Gallery opening hours 10am-6pm Monday to Saturday
91 and 93 Walton Street, London SW3 2HP
+ 44 207 581 9056 http://www.coskunfineart.com
Notes to Editors
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All exhibition works are for sale, ranging from £15,000 to £500,000.
Foreword to the exhibition
by Dominique Viéville
General Heritage Curator
Director of the Rodin Museum
Foreword
A major exhibition on the theme of the relations between Rodin and Great Britain will be held at the Royal Academy of Art from … to … At
the same time as this event, the Rodin Museum, in partnership with the Coskun Gallery will present in London about forty original bronzes
intended for sale. French legislation only permits twelve copies of each of these original bronzes, which have been produced from moulds
included in Rodin’s donation to the French State in 1916.
In addition to the studies connected with the monuments to Balzac, Victor Hugo and The Burghers of Calais, as well as the Whistler Muse,
commissioned from Rodin in 1903 on the death of the painter James Mac Neil Whistler, the Coskun Gallery will display a series of
sculptures illustrating how Rodin conceived his works in the secrecy of his studios and the silence of solitary creation.
The aesthetics of fragmentation and assemblage, of deconstructing and restructuring, are the keys of an intimate creative now being
discovered. This new viewpoint is far removed from the image of the dramatic and ideal beauty that sometimes prevailed in the eyes of art
lovers.
In the same spirit as the exhibition held at this art gallery in 2000, the works presented today affirm the role played by Rodin as one of the
founding fathers of modern sculpture. They reveal the principal aspects of the research carried out by the artist, in keeping with the
aesthetics he pursued throughout his life, that is to say, he eliminated accessories and superfluous details to focus on the essential, erasing
all anecdotal references and highlighting the relationship between volume and space through the techniques of assemblage and
fragmentation.
I wish to thank Gül Coskun for all her efforts to promote the oeuvre of Rodin in Britain for so many years, and express my firm conviction
that the exhibition she is presenting today will meet all the success it deserves.
Dominique Viéville
General Heritage Curator
Director of the Rodin Museum
RODIN AND THE HÔTEL BIRON
By Gül Coskun
In the shadow of the dome of the Invalides, at 77 rue de Varenne, stands the Hôtel Biron, built between 1728 and 1730. Unlike the other
large houses in the quartier Saint-Germain, it is detached and is surrounded by three hectares (7.4 acres) of grounds, giving it the
appearance of a real chateau in the heart of the city.
The property was acquired by the maréchal’s death: initially it was rented out for public balls and was eventually handed over to the Société
du Sacré-Coeur de Jésus, a religious organisation devoted to the education of young girls of aristocratic and noble birth. It was during this
period that all luxury and superfluous elements were banished from the house.
However, by the turn of the century, the property had become a temporary home to a number of artists including Henri Matisse, Jean
Cocteau, the actor de Max and the dancer Isadora Duncan. Rodin himself took up residence in 1908 in the suite of south-facing drawing
rooms. Although he continued to live and work in Meudon, Rodin was captivated by the beauty and wild charm of the Hôtel’s grounds.
His drawings started covering the walls of his apartments, whilst his collection of Greek and Roman antiquities filled up the park.
When the State bought the property in 1911, all the artists were asked to leave. Rodin, however, was given extra time and in 1912 the
administrative council agreed to allow the sculptor to use the building for the rest of his days. It was at this time that Rodin devised a plan
to hand over his collection, as well as his archives, to the State on the condition that a museum be devoted to him at the Hôtel Biron“I will bequeath to the state all my works, in plaster, marble, bronze and stone, together with my drawings, as well as the antiques that I
have enjoyed collecting…And I ask the state to keep all these collections in the Hôtel Biron, which will become the Rodin museum, allowing
me to stay here for the rest of my life.”
The scheme was strongly supported by Claude Monet, Octave Mirbeau, Aristide Briand and Georges Clemenceau amongst others.
However, a successful conclusion to the matter was difficult as Rodin’s art was still little understood: indeed it was sometimes even
regarded as the work of the devil.
Finally, after negotiations were further interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914, Parliament approved the donation of his collections,
photographs and archives, as well as all his works, including his drawings, in December 1916. Rodin died on November 17th 1917 and
was unable to see the materialization of his dream. The Hôtel Biron opened to the public as the musée Rodin on August 4th 1919.
Today, the musée Rodin has 500,000 visitors a year and is one of the most popular museums in France, after the Louvre, Versailles and
the musée d’Orsay. The popularity of the museum not only reflects the fame of Rodin and his works, but also the special charm of the
house itself and its grounds. It is not often that one is given the chance of strolling at leisure in the house of one of the greatest artists of
the last century, whilst surrounded by the most stunning collection of art.
Exhibition list
RESERVED FOR PRIVATE COLLECTORS
Femme qui se peigne
N°03/08, Inv.Com 4358
Fonte E. Godard, musée Rodin 2002
Torse Centauresse et Torse féminin
N° 02/08, Inv.Com 4150
Fonte E. Godard, © musée Rodin 1990
Torse Centauresse et Iris
N° 03/08, Inv.Com 4156
Torse Centauresse et Adolescent désespéré (à fondre)
N° 05/08, Inv.Com à définir
Torse masculin du Baiser
N° 04/08, Inv.Com 4267
Apollon écrasant le serpent python
N° 02/08, Inv.Com 4291
Fonte Coubertin, © musée Rodin 1996
Nu féminin agenouillé, penché vers l’avant
N° 04/08, Inv.Com 4373
Fonte Godard, © musée Rodin 2004
Martyre, pm
N° 02/08, Inv.Com 4243
Fonte Godard © musée Rodin 1995
Femme accroupie et Martyre (à fondre)
Balzac type G
N° 06/08, Inv.Com 4047
Giganti
N° 03/08, Inv.Com 3971
Les trois Vertus (à fondre)
N° 03/08, Inv. Com à définir
La Création
N° 03/08, Inv.Com 4345
L’Ecclesiaste
N° 05/08, Inv.Com 4326
Mme Fenaille sur colonne
N° 01/08, Inv.Com 4269
Fonte Coubertin © musée Rodin 1996
Ugolin de la Porte
N° 01/08, Inv.Com 4379
Fonte Coubertin © musée Rodin
Pallas au casque
N° 06/08, Inv. Com 4275
La Mort (à fondre)
Balzac jeune, (tête) étude d’après Dévéria
N° 08/08, Inv.Com 4113
Fonte E. Godard © musée Rodin 1988
Homme qui marche sur colonne (à fondre)
N° 05/08, Inv. Com à définir
Muse Wistler, G.M
N° 05/08, Inv. Com 4215
Muse Whistler, Torse
N°02/08, Inv. Com 4135
New works
Roméo et Juliette
Pygmalion et Galatée
Polyphème et Acis
RESERVED FOR MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS
Eustache de Saint Pierre, Tête, Dernier état
N°III /IV , Inv. Com 4254
Eustache de Saint Pierre Nu, 2eme maquette
N°II /III , Inv. Com 3681
Fonte E Godard © musée Rodin 1982
Jean de Fiennes, Tête
N°III /IV , Inv. Com 3849
Jean de Fiennes, 2eme maquette, version vêtue
N°II /IV , Inv. Com 3949
Etude pour Ariane, étude
Buste de Balzac d’après Berthall
N°IV/IV , Inv. Com 4330
Tête de Giganti
Muse whistler, tête
Muse Whistler, étude pour le monument
La nuit, épreuve double
Pallas au casque
Saint Jean Baptiste, Tête, M. Colossal
N°IV/IV , Inv. Com 4123
Sphinge sur colonne
Etude pour le monument à Victor Hugo, assis seul et drapé
New works
Roméo et Juliette
Pygmalion et Galatée
Polyphème et Acis
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Rodin in England, Royal Academy of Arts
Rodin's work will be celebrated in an extensive retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, this Autumn. Rodin, sponsored by Ernst &
Young will include some 200 objects including works that have never before been exhibited outside France. This exhibition, open from 23
September 2006 - 1 January 2007, will be the first major Rodin exhibition in Britain for 20 years.
Musée Rodin http://www.musee-rodin.fr/

RODIN in association with the Musée Rodin, Paris 15 September

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