Although Auguste Rodin is universally recognized as a sculptor, he was also a passionate draftsman. “It’s very simple: my drawings are the key to my work,” he confided to the journalist René Benjamin in 1910.
Through a selection of almost 70 drawings taken exclusively from the museum’s collection, the exhibition reveals a practice that is constantly reinvented, from his formative years to the luminous drawings of his maturity. The art of the fragment, the taste for series, the visibility of the gesture, and his explorations of color place Rodin at the forefront of modernity.
