The Musée Camille Claudel, a new museum dedicated to the sculptor Camille Claudel, opened yesterday in a small French town southeast of Paris, finally giving recognition to one of art history’s ...

The French sculptor Camille Claudel’s (1864-1943) masterpiece The Waltz, exhibited in different editions and mediums starting in 1893, shows two bodies so fluidly rendered that the artist Kiki Smith ...

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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 ...

A notable similarity marks a subcategory of once woefully under-recognized female artists of the past. Their resolute endurance of trauma is proposed as a primary reason to reassess their work today.

Camille Claudel was born in Fère-en-Tardenois, in northern France on December 8, 1864. At age 12, sculptor Alfred Boucher visited her after a request from her father. He took notice of Claudel’s ...

A historic ensemble of 20 extremely rare works by Camille Claudel—the French sculptor once better known as the lover and student of Rodin—broke records in Paris last night when they sold for a ...

CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 Juliette Binoche pulls out all the stops as the tragic artist in an unusual, powerful biopic Camille Claudel was not only Rodin’s student, mistress and muse, but a talented ...

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Juliette Binoche delivers a tour-de-force performance in “Camille Claudel 1915,” a curious little movie about the late sculptor who, after a yearslong affair with sculptor Auguste Rodin and the death ...

The life and work of Camille Claudel, the French sculptor who defied gender-based restrictions to pursue her art, is being celebrated with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 155th birthday.

TODAY’S Google Doodle celebrates Camille Claudel on her 155th birthday. Here’s what you need to know about the famous French sculptor. Camille Claudel was born in Fère-en-Tardenois, in northern France ...