(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) at auction. “Le ...

At first glance, it may be tempting to view “Rodin and the art of ancient Greece” at the British Museum, the first exhibition in which Phidias’s Parthenon Marbles have been shown alongside the work of ...

‘In my spare time, I simply haunt the British Museum,” Auguste Rodin told an interviewer in 1903. The museum had the Elgin Marbles—more than half of the surviving statues and friezes designed by ...

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In 1903 Auguste Rodin said, “The most interesting thing about London is the number of its antiquities. In my spare time I simply haunt the British Museum.” It was an uncharacteristically understated ...

"Le Désespoir" (Despair) by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. - Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images A sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin that had disappeared from public view for almost 120 ...

PARIS — 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 $984,000 at auction. "Le Désespoir," which shows ...