Emancipated Muses: Sculptor Camille Claudel,

Painter Gwen John and Auguste Rodin

Gwen John

Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel (b Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, 8 Dec

1864; d Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Gard, 19 Oct 1943)

Paul Claudel Aged 13

(bronze, 1881; Châteauroux,

Mus. Bertrand)

Claudel and

Rodin

Rose Beuret

Camille Claudel:

Çacountala (original

plaster, 1888; Châteauroux,

Mus. Bertrand; bronze version,

1905; Paris, Mus. Rodin)

Auguste Rodin- "Pensée (Thought)" - (1886) Musée d'Orsay, Sculptures, Paris

Camille Claudel, Bust of Rodin1892, bronze, 40 x 25 x 28 cm

S. 1021, È musée Rodin

Maturity, Circa 1902, Bronze group in three partsH. 1.14; W. 1.63; D. 0.72, Musée d'Orsay

The Imploring Woman - 1900 (Age 36)

Cacountala190 x 108 x 59 cm

The valzer, 190546,4 x 35,7 x 19,7 cm

Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell 1880-1917; Bronze, 18 x 12 ft; Rodin Museum, Philadelphia

Camille Claudel, The Wave, 1897. Marble / onyx and bronze. Paris, Musée Rodin

Perseus and the Gorgon (marble, 1898–1905; Paris, Mus. Rodin)

Paul Claudel, French poet (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955)

Young Girl with a Sheafca. 1890Bronze, 14 1/8 x 7 x 7 1/2 inNMWA, Washington

Self Portrait, 1899. Oil on canvas. 61 x 37,7 cm. National Portrait Gallery. London. Gran Bretaña

Gwen(dolen Mary) John (b Haverfordwest, 22 June 1876;

d Dieppe, 3 Sept 1939)

Self-Portrait  1902, Oil on canvas, 448 x 349 mm, Tate

Young Woman Holding a Black Cat, 1920-5Oil on canvas, 460 x 298 x 17 mm, Tate

Mère Poussepin (Hands in Lap) (1913–21; U.

Birmingham, Barber Inst.).

Selfportrait with Letter, 1907-09.

Watercolour and pencil on paper.

22,3 x 16,1 cm. Musée Rodin. Paris

Gwen and Augustus John

Augustus John (1878 -1961)

Augustus John, Dorelia  1908Pencil and watercolour on paper501 x 354 mm, Tate

Augustus JohnWoman Smiling (Dorelia) 1908-9Oil on canvas1960 x 982 mm,Tate

Gwen John, The Pilgrim, 1910 Oil painting. 29 x 21 inches

Augustus John, Madame Suggia, 1920-3Oil on canvas, 1867 x 1651 mm, Tate

The Student,

1903-4. Oil on canvas. 56,1 x 33

cm. Manchester City Art Galleries

Auguste Rodin, Study for Monument à Whistler Gwen John),

1910, bronze, 65.5 (h) x 33.0 (w) x 34.0 (d) cm, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Gwen John and

Rodin

Auguste Rodin, Tête de la muse Whistler (Gwen John), Bronze, 19 x 23.7 x 25.4 cms.

A Corner of the Artist's Room in Paris, 1907-9, oil on canvas,

31.2 x 24.8 cm, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

A Nun on her Deathbedabout 1914 – 1918, Gouache, watercolour and black chalk on paper, 31.50 x 24.00 cm, National Galleries of Scotland,

Edinburgh

A Young Nunabout 1915 – 1920, Oil on canvas, 65.10 x 49.00 cm,

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Dorelia in a Black Dress  circa 1903-4Oil on canvas, 730 x 489 mm, Tate

Chloë Boughton-Leigh  1904-8Oil on canvas, 584 x 381 mm, Tate

Nude Girl, 1909-10Oil on canvas, 445 x 279 mm, Tate

The Convalescent  1918-9, Oil on canvas,

337 x 254 mm, Tate

Interior, 1898-99. Oil on canvas. 46 x 33,4 cm. National Gallery of Victoria.

Melbourne. Australia.

La Chambre sur la Cour, 1907. Oil on canvas. 31,8 x 21,6 cm. Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon.

A Lady Reading, 1910-11. Oil on canvas. 40,3 x 25,4 cm. Tate Gallery.

Girl Reading at the Window, 1911. Oil on canvas. 40,6 x 25,4 cm.

Museum of Moderm Art. New York.

The Teapot, 1915-16. Oil on canvas. 33,3 x 24,1 cm, Yale University Art Gallery

The Student,

1903-4. Oil on canvas. 56,1 x 33

cm. Manchester City Art Galleries

Girl Posing in a Hat with Tassels,

1918-22. Oil on canvas. 46,3 x

39,4 cm. Private Collection.

Girl with Bare Shoulders, 1909-10. Oil on canvas. 43,5 x 26 cm. MoMA, New York