When I was in Paris, I had the occasion to speak with Jeanne Fayard at length about Auguste Rodin's one time mistress, who was a magnificent sculptress in her own right. Indeed, Camille Claudel who ...

French sculptor Claudel (1864–1943) is best known for her love affair with fellow artist Auguste Rodin, the basis for a late '80s French film starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani.

NOGENT-SUR-SEINE, France — After a losing battle with both mental illness and institutionalized sexism, one of the greatest French sculptors of the 19th century died in obscurity. The reputation of ...

CAMILLE CLAUDEL: A LIFE By Odile Ayral-Clause Harry N. Abrams, $29.95, 279 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY STEPHANIE DEUTSCH The Paris art community barely noticed when Camille Claudel’s sculpture was ...

Camille Claudel is best known for her tortured relationship with a famous man. She had an ill-fated romance with Auguste Rodin, who brought Claudel into his studio as a student and collaborator.

Camille Claudel was Auguste Rodin’s lover, muse and most gifted pupil. Her sad life belies a formidable talent, writes Fisun Güner. “I showed her where to find gold, but the gold she finds belongs to ...

French sculptor Camille Claudel was Auguste Rodin's lover - and spent her art career in his shadow. Nearly 75 years after her death, France is finally recognizing Claudel with a national museum.

CHICAGO — Some artists are so personally magnetic, their biographies so engrossing, that their lives overshadow their art. It’s an old problem that becomes most acute when the artist has died young, ...

The Denver Art Museum (DAM) in Colorado announced this week that it acquired 830 works across all 11 of its curatorial departments in roughly the last year, with an emphasis on further diversifying ...