![RODIN, Auguste (1840-1917). Six autograph letters signed, nine letters signed, four typewritten letters signed and three secretarial letters, addressed to Ugo Ojetti, mostly Paris, 21 March 1900 - n.d. [1914], approximately 8 pages, 8vo, in autograph, 4 typewritten pages, autograph envelopes.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/CKS/1998_CKS_05974_0121_000(104446).jpg?w=1)
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RODIN, Auguste (1840-1917). Six autograph letters signed, nine letters signed, four typewritten letters signed and three secretarial letters, addressed to Ugo Ojetti, mostly Paris, 21 March 1900 - n.d. [1914], approximately 8 pages, 8vo, in autograph, 4 typewritten pages, autograph envelopes.
Rodin refers mostly to bronzes, in one letter of July 1913 declining to let Ojetti have one that he himself needs for his museum, and in another protesting at the treatment of a work, 'mon homme qui marche a été retiré de la place où il était - Cour Farnese ? C'est un échec qui m'est pénible'; also declining a commission for a bust for Florence. Several letters refer to the Age d'Airain 'qui m'est proposé pour Rome et pour le musée. C'est possible parceque cela m'honore dans la capitale du monde'. In one he agrees to begin casting when the price is agreed by the authorities. He frequently mentions the pressures of his work, and in several letters his care for his reputation, while also referring to Ojetti's connoisseurship.
Rodin had visited Rome in his youth and was inspired by its antiquities. He re-visited it in 1912 and 1915. He had two bronze legs placed in the forecourt of the Farnese Palace, and executed a bust of Pope Benedict XV. It may have been on one of his earlier visits that he met the Italian writer and critic, Ugo Ojetti (1871-1946). L'âge d'Airain [The Age of Bronze] was submitted to the Salon in 1877, causing considerable controversy. It is now in the museum of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris. Rodin created his own museum in the Hotel Biron, where he lived, and in 1916 his plan for this was at last accepted by the nation. In his last years he was much occupied with organising the gift of his work and the copyright to the French nation, but the outbreak of war prevented him from receiving the homage regarded as his due. (22)
Rodin refers mostly to bronzes, in one letter of July 1913 declining to let Ojetti have one that he himself needs for his museum, and in another protesting at the treatment of a work, 'mon homme qui marche a été retiré de la place où il était - Cour Farnese ? C'est un échec qui m'est pénible'; also declining a commission for a bust for Florence. Several letters refer to the Age d'Airain 'qui m'est proposé pour Rome et pour le musée. C'est possible parceque cela m'honore dans la capitale du monde'. In one he agrees to begin casting when the price is agreed by the authorities. He frequently mentions the pressures of his work, and in several letters his care for his reputation, while also referring to Ojetti's connoisseurship.
Rodin had visited Rome in his youth and was inspired by its antiquities. He re-visited it in 1912 and 1915. He had two bronze legs placed in the forecourt of the Farnese Palace, and executed a bust of Pope Benedict XV. It may have been on one of his earlier visits that he met the Italian writer and critic, Ugo Ojetti (1871-1946). L'âge d'Airain [The Age of Bronze] was submitted to the Salon in 1877, causing considerable controversy. It is now in the museum of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris. Rodin created his own museum in the Hotel Biron, where he lived, and in 1916 his plan for this was at last accepted by the nation. In his last years he was much occupied with organising the gift of his work and the copyright to the French nation, but the outbreak of war prevented him from receiving the homage regarded as his due. (22)