In a long life that stretched from 1840 to 1917, Auguste Rodin brought sculpture back into public prominence after decades of subservience to painting. His work broke through boundaries and traditions accepted for centuries, and he became one of the most prestigious artists of the early twentieth century. However, in the last decades of his life, he began to make erotic nude studies of his female models that were so unconventional and free from restraint that they were considered indecent and 'a threat to morality'.
Using pencil and watercolour, Rodin produced images of great expressive power and surety of line, which, in later years, he sometimes cut out in silhouette and combined. This collection of drawing and watercolours, brought together from museums and private collections all over the world, is presented along with an essay that sets the works into their cultural and artisitc context and shows the full power and modernist vision of this remarkable artist.