When I was in Paris, I had the occasion to speak with Jeanne Fayard at length about Auguste Rodin's one time mistress, who was a magnificent sculptress in her own right. Indeed, Camille Claudel who ...

There has been a tendency in the belated rediscovery of Camille Claudel for the artist’s biography to overshadow the art. True indeed, she suffered: first from 19th-century sexism; second, at the ...

NOGENT-SUR-SEINE, France — After a losing battle with both mental illness and institutionalized sexism, one of the greatest French sculptors of the 19th century died in obscurity. The reputation of ...

Camille Claudel is best known for her tortured relationship with a famous man. She had an ill-fated romance with Auguste Rodin, who brought Claudel into his studio as a student and collaborator.

What went so wrong that the brilliant sculptor’s work became so little known? Simply put, she entered Rodin’s studio. Claudel was a brilliant artist, long eclipsed by her romantic partner and ...

CAMILLE CLAUDEL: A LIFE By Odile Ayral-Clause Harry N. Abrams, $29.95, 279 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY STEPHANIE DEUTSCH The Paris art community barely noticed when Camille Claudel’s sculpture was ...

CHICAGO — Some artists are so personally magnetic, their biographies so engrossing, that their lives overshadow their art. It’s an old problem that becomes most acute when the artist has died young, ...