Auguste Rodin

:This article is about the artist and sculptor, Auguste Rodin. See Rodan for an article about the monster.

Legacy

The Musée Rodin in Paris was founded to administer and exhibit the huge body of work (over 5,000 plaster items, over 1,000 bronze sculptures, ca. 8,000 drawings, and as many photographs) Rodin left to the French government by several deeds of donation, shortly before his death. A part of this collection is shown at Hôtel Biron, much of it displayed in an outdoor garden. The most of plaster collection is kept at Villa des Brillants in Meudon, a suburb of Paris, where Rodin lived and worked during the last decades of his life.

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Musée Rodin - Paris

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With his works, Rodin also transferred the rights of reproduction to the Musée Rodin. According to French Law (Decree Nr. 81.255 of 3 March 1981), only 12 copies of each work can be issued as an original edition. Although the copyrights to Rodin's work expired in 1987, 70 years after the artist's death, according to French law the Musée Rodin still exerts the droit moral (moral right), to prevent damage to the artist's good name by copies of inferior quality.

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3 March - 1981

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One of Rodin's 1889 sculptures was used by the rock band Black Sabbath as the cover art for their 1987 album of the same name, The Eternal Idol.

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Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol

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