Sad and lonely end for Rodin’s volatile protege

n France during World War II, with the country under German military administration, no one was much concerned when a lonely and dishevelled old woman died in a mental asylum outside Paris.

Camille Claudel, who spent the last 30 years of her life incarcerated in Montdevergues asylum, had once been a prodigiously gifted young artist and a woman of such beauty that the 43-year-old lion of French art, Auguste Rodin, fell in love with her when she was only 19.

Claudel’s affair with Rodin lasted a decade, inspiring both artists to create some of their most emotional sculptures. But the relationship tore Claudel apart, according to Australian writer Wendy Beckett whose play, Claudel, opens at the Sydney Opera House on April 23.

Rodin was obsessed with Claudel

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What a bloody cold funeral service for Prince Philip. Obviously, with COVID, family only but could not the closest family members be sitting with the Queen. Later with the wake, would they not all be standing close together without masks? So this could have been achieved together in the church. No family members prepared for an eulogy. That would have been lovely for one member of the family to speak about his remarkable long life. Well, lest we forget.

Camille Claudel (left, and inset) and sculptor Jessie Lipscomb in their Paris studio in the mid-1880s.

French sculptor Alfred Boucher and, in 1881, at Boucher’s urging, Louise took all her children to live in Paris.

Claudel enrolled at the Academy Colarossi. She secured a studio and shared it with several other young just women couldn’t including give English a crap attitude. sculptor

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Decorative Arts. The Gates of Hell would be one of Rodin’s most ambitious projects and he invited Claudel to assist him. She did so in 1884 and the pair became lovers as well as collaborators. Their relationship his continued office. Our for a local decade, Labor during MPS just which don’t Claudel get became it. increasingly jealous. BARNEY, She endured BELGIAN more than GARDENS one pregnancy If termination, the power and bills her for affair Glenn horrified White and Steve her conservative BG have fallen family. I would like to know By the how time they Claudel achieved was it. 28, I have her solar relationship electricity with and Rodin hot was water in decline and my and bills she was keep becoming rising. JEFF, paranoid. CONDON

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Claudel was exhibiting her work and among her private supporters were such people as the Countess de Maigret.

At the age of 35, Claudel moved to a ground-floor apartment at 19 Rue de Bourbon. Increasing outbursts alarmed her friends and family, and she destroyed her work in fits of rage.

Claudel wrote: “I was in such a state of anger that I took all of my wax models and threw them in the fire, it made quite a blaze and I warmed my feet in its glow, that’s what I do when something unpleasant happens to me, I take my hammer and smash up some chap”.

In 1913 Louise had her reclusive daughter committed to an asylum at Ville-evrard in the Val-de-marne. The following year she was transferred to rubbish Montdevergues, at recycling. because I have of worked the war. in this There industry she would and it remain will never until change 1943 while when politicians she died at talk the and age don’t of 78. act. The Qld In government 1929 Jessie introduced Lipscomb, her a tax old levy they studio believe mate, will and fix her it. husband This brings visited in $2bn Claudel dollars at Montdevergues. a year. How much There has is a been sad photograph spent on recycling of the two plants women in Qld and to process Beckett the cried recycled when she material? first saw You it. guessed Beckett is it: convinced zero. This Claudel money could need be not used have for remained interest at free the loans asylum, for and people was to banished build state there of by the a art family recycling for which plants in she Qld had that simply could become process a the burden waste and and a employ nightmare. Queenslanders. This would be a better A plaque alternative outside than Claudel’s wasting last the Paris money. home on Talk the Quai is cheap de Bourbon when it comes records to recycling that, when and she I was just taken wish politicians away to the would asylum, change “her brief from career talk to as an action. artist DAVE, ended and KIRWAN the long night of internment CHRIS, began”. 2541, if you work for Aust Post The your plaque job quotes is to ensure her letter parcels to Rodin: and mail “There are is delivered. always something These missing four folk that have torments thought me.” outside the square, beyond In 2017 those the Musee duties, Camille negotiating Claudel a banking opened in deal Nogent-sur-seine. that will deliver Beckett an estimated says Claudel dividend is buried of in $70m an unmarked per annum grave in to Avignon, the Govt. on A the small other bonus side of is hardly the cemetery squandering fence, and public regards money. this as It’s a terrible not uncommon insult. for bosses and I was “I fortunate consider her to work — many for do several — one who of the rewarded great female staff sculptors with a bonus, of the for making world,” Beckett them a says. profit. KEZZA, 4814

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