Camille Claudel recordbreaking sale and major museum exhibitions
Camille Claudel, L’implorante
Camille Claudel recordbreaking sale and major museum exhibitions
Reve au coin de feu has officially been placed by Turner Carroll Gallery at the Denver Art Museum, and Turner Carroll Gallery is pleased to review recent news of our work with Camille Claudel’s sculptures.
L’implorante was placed with a collector in a sale that set the North American record for Camille Claudel, and we couldn’t be more pleased with the placement. L’implorante was also included in a Claudel exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in conjunction with the Getty Museum. You may read more about the exhibition in this article from the Chicago Reader.
Camille Claudel (b. 1864, France) was a French sculptress working in bronze, marble, terracotta, and onyx. Her skill in sculpture was evident early in her life, and Claudel’s feather moved her to Paris in 1882 so that she could study sculpture at L’Academie Colarossi, the only art school open to women at the time. When the famed sculptor Auguste Rodin began instructing at the school, the two started a personal and professional partnership in which Claudel’s contributions to Rodin’s sculptures went largely unacknowledged. When Claudel struck on our an independent career of her own, she was widely hailed as a genius, a fact made even more remarkable by the limitations imposed on her by the misogyny of the early 1900s. In 1913, Claudel’s mother and brother controversially committed her to a mental institution due to their disapproval of her lifestyle, where Claudel spent the rest of her life.
Author: Sophie Carroll