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When was Auguste Rodin’s bronze statue of Balzac finally erected in Paris?
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Auguste Rodin
French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
Auguste Rodin’s bronze statue of Honoré de Balzac was finally erected in 1939 at the crossroads of the Montmartre section of Paris.1
Following a controversial reception of the model at the 1898 Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Rodin had reimbursed the Society of Men of Letters and reclaimed the work. The sculpture, which foreshadowed the simplicity of modern art, remained uninstalled in a public space until decades after the artist's death.1