Phyllis Stigliano Art Projects, Brooklyn, NY USA is pleased to announce, Amitiés, Camille Claudel (French, 1864-1943), a tribute exhibition to promote the work of Claudel in the United States. She was a French sculptor known for her visionary personal and modern styles. A student of Alfred Boucher, and then with Auguste Rodin becoming a source of inspiration as well as his lover. Claudel and Rodin were in love with a true passion for art, sculpture, bodies, portraits, and each other. Lamentably, Claudel was long forgotten after her death but with a re-evaluation of her work due to scholars and her grand-niece Reine- Marie Paris’ research - she is considered one of France’s greatest sculptors of the nineteenth century.
This show consists of xerox copies and enlargements of selected notable sculptures including Claudel working on plaster Sakuntala, 1887, in her studio in Paris – a sensual work of human passion that was awarded honorable mention in the 1888 Salon des Artistes Français, Paris, when Claudel was twenty-three years old; the final iteration of The Little Chatelaine, 1896, commissioned by Henri Fontaine, conveys the artist’s profound range and mastery in sculpting marble; and her most ambitious bronze group of three figures in Age of Maturity, 1902. Also on view is staunch supporter Mathias Morhardt’s biography, Mlle Camille Claudel, published in Mercure de France, Paris, March 1898. The exhibition has been organized by Phyllis Stigliano, NY, and Maud Fernandez, Paris. Maud Fernandez, professor of general Culture, Fénelon Sup, Paris, has written a statement for the gallery and brochure.
Opened since March 2017, Musèe Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine, is dedicated to the artist’s work; Musèe Rodin, Paris, has a room devoted to Camille Claudel. The exhibition, Camille Claudel, opened October 2023 at the Art Institute of Chicago traveling to J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, April 2024.
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