Emancipated Muses:

Sculptor Camille Claudel,

Painter Gwen John
and Auguste Rodin

Camille Claudel

Gwen John
 Camille Claudel
(b Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, 8 Dec
1864; d Villeneuve-lès-Avignon,
Gard, 19 Oct 1943)

Paul Claudel
Aged 13
(bronze, 1881;
Châteauroux,
Mus. Bertrand)
 Claudel
and
Rodin

Rose Beuret

Camille
Claudel:
Çacountala
(original
plaster, 1888;
Châteauroux,
Mus. Bertrand;
bronze version,
1905; Paris,
Mus. Rodin)
Auguste Rodin
- "Pensée (Thought)" - (1886)
Musée d'Orsay, Sculptures, Paris
Camille Claudel, Bust of Rodin
1892, bronze, 40 x 25 x 28 cm
S. 1021, È musée Rodin
The Imploring Woman - 1900 (Age 36)

Maturity, Circa 1902, Bronze

group in three partsH. 1.14; W.
1.63; D. 0.72, Musée d'Orsay
Cacountala
190 x 108 x 59 cm

The valzer, 1905

46,4 x 35,7 x 19,7 cm
 Camille Claudel, The Wave, 1897. Marble /
onyx and bronze. Paris, Musée Rodin

Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell

1880-1917; Bronze, 18 x 12 ft;
Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
Perseus and the Gorgon (marble, 1898–1905;
Paris, Mus. Rodin)
Paul Claudel,
French poet
(6 August 1868 – 23
February 1955)
Young Girl with a Sheaf
ca. 1890
Bronze, 14 1/8 x 7 x 7 1/2 in
NMWA, Washington
 Gwen(dolen Mary) John
(b Haverfordwest, 22 June 1876;
d Dieppe, 3 Sept 1939)

Self Portrait, 1899. Oil on canvas.

61 x 37,7 cm. National Portrait
Gallery. London. Gran Bretaña
Self-Portrait  1902,
Oil on canvas,
448 x 349 mm, Tate
Mère Poussepin (Hands in
Lap) (1913–21; U.
Birmingham, Barber Inst.).

Young Woman Holding a Black Cat, 1920-5

Oil on canvas, 460 x 298 x 17 mm, Tate
 Selfportrait with Letter,
1907-09.
Watercolour and pencil on
paper.
22,3 x 16,1 cm.
Musée Rodin. Paris
 Gwen and Augustus John

Augustus John 
(1878 -1961)

Augustus John, 
Dorelia  1908
Pencil and
watercolour on
paper
501 x 354 mm,
Tate
Augustus John
Woman Smiling (Dorelia) 
1908-9
Oil on canvas
1960 x 982 mm,
Tate
 Gwen John, The Pilgrim, 1910
Oil painting. 29 x 21 inches

Augustus John, Madame Suggia, 1920-3

Oil on canvas, 1867 x 1651 mm, Tate
 The Student,
1903-4. Oil on
canvas. 56,1 x 33
cm. Manchester
City Art Galleries
 Gwen John
and
Rodin

Auguste Rodin, Tête de la muse

Whistler (Gwen John), Bronze,
19 x 23.7 x 25.4 cms.

Auguste Rodin, Study for Monument à Whistler Gwen John),

1910, bronze, 65.5 (h) x 33.0 (w) x 34.0 (d) cm, Gallery of
New South Wales, Sydney
A Corner of the Artist's Room
in Paris, 1907-9, oil on canvas,
31.2 x 24.8 cm, National Museum
Wales, Cardiff
A Nun on her Deathbedabout 1914
– 1918, Gouache, watercolour and
black chalk on paper, 31.50 x 24.00
cm, National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh
A Young Nunabout 1915 – 1920,
Oil on canvas, 65.10 x 49.00 cm,
National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh
Dorelia in a Black Dress  circa 1903-4
Oil on canvas, 730 x 489 mm, Tate

Chloë Boughton-Leigh  1904-8

Oil on canvas, 584 x 381 mm, Tate
Nude Girl, 1909-10
Oil on canvas,
445 x 279 mm,
Tate
The Convalescent  1918-9,
Oil on canvas,
337 x 254 mm, Tate
 Interior, 1898-99. Oil on canvas.
46 x 33,4 cm. National Gallery of Victoria.
Melbourne. Australia.

La Chambre sur la Cour, 1907.

Oil on canvas. 31,8 x 21,6 cm. Collection of
Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon.
A Lady Reading, 1910-11. Oil on canvas. Girl Reading at the Window, 1911.
40,3 x 25,4 cm. Tate Gallery. Oil on canvas. 40,6 x 25,4 cm.
Museum of Moderm Art. New York.
 The Student,
1903-4. Oil on
canvas. 56,1 x 33
cm. Manchester
City Art Galleries

The Teapot,
1915-16.
Oil on canvas.
33,3 x 24,1 cm,
Yale University
Art Gallery
Girl with Girl Posing in a
Bare Hat with Tassels,
Shoulders, 1918-22. Oil on
1909-10. Oil canvas. 46,3 x
on canvas. 39,4 cm. Private
43,5 x 26 Collection.
cm. MoMA,
New York