RODIN'S BALZAC
The storm in the 1890's over Rodin's Balzac, which has been recalled by its unveiling and final acceptance, was not by any means confined to Paris, says the "Manchester Guardian." The studios of the world were shaken when the character of Rodin's statue was revealed, and many elders among us have memories of the merry conflict in London forty years ago. Some ten years had.passed since the production of the first Ibsen plays, vvhich had seemed to threaten the end of all things in the drama; the novelists were beginning to kick over the traces, but so far nothing more revolutionary than the New English Art Club had happened to upset' the galleries. The Balzac was terrific, starting the tempest which has raged at intervals down to Epstein's Adam of those present days. In the London of 1898 there was little mercy for the Balzac, and not a great.deal of admiration for the sculptor himself. Rodin at that time was unlucky in some of his champions, prominent among whom was Frank Harris • in. .the,7'Saturdax^Eevie.w."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 12
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176RODIN'S BALZAC Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 12
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