An unfinished Rodin, adorning a tomb in Virginia, is in the headlines in the United States.
On December 20, the
New York Times
revealed that the descendants of Elizabeth Musgrave Merrill (1853-1928), buried there, had resolved to auction this
Mother to Child
mold , an order that Augustus never completed. Rodin, who died in 1917. The reason given?
The growing notoriety of the work, long anonymous in the spans of the cemetery of the old Confederate city of Middelburg, 70 km west of Washington, but mentioned by actress Jane Fonda in her blog in 2013 and more and more more frequented by onlookers.
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Rodin's Parisian lair
The risk of theft does not suffer discussion: this type of crime is commonplace across the Atlantic and concerns experts.
But the choice of the Merrill heirs to put the work up for sale seems much less defensible, this kind of move generally benefiting public cultural spaces.
"All this goes against the original intentions"
of the family ...
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