Former Orlando Pirates head coach José Riveiro often appears to be in a contemplative mood on match days. The Spaniard positions himself like The Thinker, the famous statue by Auguste Rodin in Paris, ...

06/30/2022 June 30, 2022. Worldwide, about 40 casts exist of Auguste Rodin's world-famous bronze sculpture of a man lost in thought. Christie's auction house has just sold one of them for $11 million.

Titled "The Despair," the rare artwork just sold at auction for $1 million. For many years, its owners had assumed it was ...

Worldwide, about 40 casts exist of Auguste Rodin's world-famous bronze sculpture of a man lost in thought. Christie's auction house has just sold one of them for $11 million.

Rodin’s very first cast of the work retains an unexpected remnant of the original concept—a Florentine cap (or thinking cap, if you will). Left, Rodin’s The Thinker . Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A casting of Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” sculpture, one of the most iconic works of art in the world, sold for 10.7 million euros ($11.14 million) at a Paris auction on Thursday.

But Rodin's "Thinker" was an unknown, nameless man with too-big feet and hands and a crooked nose, whose body looks peculiarly dented, yet muscular and sinewy. Jean Baud, a French prizefighter and ...