French sculptor Auguste Rodin wanted his 1882 statue Eve to be part of his Gates of Hell project. Rodin worked on the unfinished project until his death. Today, this cast of the statue has pride ...

Sir John was planning one more appeal. Said he: “Rodin is perhaps the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo . . . This is the only Rodin marble in a public collection in England.” The others ...

There are a further twelve enlarged versions, one of which was placed over Rodin's grave at his own request. This sculpture represents the poet Dante pondering the fate of mankind. The figure was ...