Catherine Wachs-Genest, curator of the Guéret for the last decade, said: “I
never imagined I’d ever get to see it. There’s a great feeling of
satisfaction. We’re very happy.”
The bust completes the “vision” of the museum’s permanent
collection, and “shows a historic link between Rodin and Claudelle,”
said Ms Wachs-Genest.
She said investigators were still in possession of the bust, but it would be
returned to its rightful home near Rodin’s masterpiece, 1889 “The Kiss,”
of a couple embracing.
As well as being his lover, Claudel was a talented pupil and the muse of the
sculptor. She became a sculptor in her own right, producing some 50 works,
but signing relatively few of them.
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