Octave Mirabeau
ArtistAuguste Rodin
Year1895
MediumPlaster
LocationMuseo Soumaya, Mexico City

Octave Mirbeau is an 1895 plaster relief by Auguste Rodin of the writer Octave Mirbeau, now in the Museo Soumaya.[1] He had got to know him thanks to The Age of Bronze and The Gates of Hell - Mirbeau visited Rodin's studio, published the first description of Gates in the review La France, promoted Rodin's other work and died only a few months before the sculptor.

Rodin showed on several occasions gratitude towards the writer who played the important role of promoter of his work.[2]

Death

Mirbeau died on 16 February 1917, a few months before Auguste Rodin.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Biografía de Octave Mirbeau" (in Spanish).
  2. ↑ La Puerta del Infierno (in Spanish, English, and French). Fundación Carlos Slim A.C. 2016. p. 398.
  3. ↑ "La Puerta del Infierno". Revista mensual. Museo Soumaya. June 2016.
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