Rodin: L´Art 1911 dedicated

DEDICATION COPY. RODIN, AUGUSTE. L´art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell. Paris (Bernard Grasset) 1911.

8:o. (4), (2), 3-318, (2, last blank) pp. Blue half leather, slightly worn, gilt spine in five compartments, upper edge gilt. Dedication to Robert Ross on halftitle. Bookplate of E. Blichert.

First edition of this record of a great sculptor´s words on art and artists. Conversations on art, color, drawing, nature, and many famous artists: Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Houdon, Titian, Millet, Raphael, the Greeks, etc. With many photographs of Rodin´s sculpture

Robert Ross, probably Robert Baldwin Ross (1869 - 1918) was a Canadian journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend, lover and literary executor. A grandson of the Canadian reform leader Robert Baldwin, and son of John Ross and Augusta Elizabeth Baldwin, Ross was a pivotal figure on the London literary and artistic scene from the mid-1890s to his early death, and mentored several literary figures, including Siegfried Sassoon. (Wikipedia)

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