By Alex Capon
London dealer Daniel Katz has sold two bronze sculptures to the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, one by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and the other by Rodin’s assistant, model and lover Camille Claudel (1864-1943).
Claudel’s Torso of a Crouching Woman was one of two small bronze casts of the work made in 1913. Measuring 14in (35cm) high, it was originally executed as a plaster model with the dismembered f igure of a crouching woman appearing to signify Claudel’s tumultuous relationship with Rodin.