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“In a single instant, I feel your terrible force,” he wrote to her in a passionate 1883 letter. “Atrocious madness, it’s the end. I won’t be able to work anymore…yet I love you furiously.”
But Rodin did work throughout their volatile romance, creating some of his most desperately passionate sculptures, including The Kiss (1882) and The Eternal Idol (1890–93).
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Auguste Rodin couldn’t bear it when an argument temporarily ruptured his romantic relationship with fellow sculptor Camille Claudel.
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“In a single instant, I feel your terrible force,” he wrote to her in a passionate 1883 letter. “Atrocious madness, it’s the end. I won’t be able to work anymore…yet I love you furiously.”
But Rodin did work throughout their volatile romance, creating some of his most desperately passionate sculptures, including The Kiss (1882) and The Eternal Idol (1890–93).
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