The first person buried in the Hart Island cemetery, in 1869, was Louisa Van Slyke, a 24-year-old who died of tuberculosis with no known family to claim her.

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Staff refused to open the museum’s doors to thousands of visitors on Monday, citing over-tourism and crumbling infrastructure ...

However, after a family came forward with what they believed to be a fake replica of Despair, a six-week investigation launched by the Comité Rodin revealed that it was actually the real original ...

Rennes, France: The owners thought the sculpture perched for years on the corner of a piano was a Rodin copy. After being declared as the real thing the small marble figure has now sold for $1.6 ...

Described as an "extremely rare" find by auction organiser Aymeric Rouillac, the figure was in fact an 1892 work, "Despair" by Auguste Rodin, that had gone missing after being sold at auction in 1906.

Back to homepage / Live news Rodin 'copy' sells for $1 million in France. Rennes (France) (AFP) – The owners thought the sculpture perched for years on the corner of a piano was a Rodin copy ...

Rodin’s auction record stands at $20.4 million, set by the two-foot-high marble sculpture L’éternel printemps (1884) at Sotheby’s New York in 2016.

Rodin, who lived from 1840-1917, made several versions of “Le Désespoir.” This particular sculpture was modelled in 1890 and sculpted from marble in 1892-93.

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin that had disappeared from public view for almost 120 years and was thought to be a copy has sold for 860,000 euros ($984,000 ...