Rodin dancers

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Musée Rodin, Paris | Rodin and the Cambodian Dancers: His Final Passion

This exhibition illustrates the extraordinary encounter of Rodin with the aesthetics of Khmer dance, which he discovered on the occasion of the official visit to France by King Sisowath of Cambodia in 1906. Rodin was immediately fired by a passion and enthusiasm for the aesthetics of this art and the purity and grace of its expressions. He left everything suddenly to follow the dancers of the royal ballet to Marseille, from where they would embark on their return to Cambodia.

Cambodian Dancer by Auguste Rodin Painting Print 1Art1

How Cambodian culture was hijacked by the French colonial project—and helped inspire Rodin.

Forty of Rodin’s drawings of classical Cambodian dancers visit the National Museum in Cambodia in a wing renovated for the show.

Cambodian Dancer, left profile, by Auguste Rodin

Rodin drawing

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