{"id":175031,"date":"2025-06-11T07:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175031\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T07:12:14","slug":"rodin-copy-sells-for-us1mil-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175031\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodin \u2018copy\u2019 sells for US$1mil in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"rodin \" loading=\"eager\" width=\"512\" height=\"320\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1749625934_561_image\"\/>A marble sculpture by French sculptor Auguste Rodin entitled \u2018Le Desepsoir\u2019. (The Despair) (AFP pic)<br \/>\nPARIS: The owners thought the sculpture perched for years on the corner of a piano was a Rodin copy, but after being declared as the real thing the small marble figure has now sold for one million dollars at auction, organisers said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Described as an \u201cextremely rare\u201d find by auction organiser Aymeric Rouillac, the figure was in fact an 1892 work, \u201cDespair\u201d by Auguste Rodin, that had gone missing after being sold at auction in 1906.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The work was put on sale at the weekend at an opening price of 500,000 euros, but eventually sold for 860,000 euros, according to Rouillac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The family had long believed the 28.5-centimetre figure of a sitting woman holding one foot was a copy of the legendary sculptor\u2019s work, said Rouillac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">After the owners approached Rouillac about another matter, he and his team spent months investigating the origin of the sculpture, including even looking into the family\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">He went to the Comite Rodin in March and the body that is considered the leading authority on the French artist confirmed its authenticity six weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Rouillac said the committee found that \u201cDespair\u201d was sold at auction in 1906 and then disappeared from view. \u201cSo we have rediscovered it,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A marble sculpture by French sculptor Auguste Rodin entitled \u2018Le Desepsoir\u2019. (The Despair) (AFP pic) PARIS: The owners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[15750,2000,299,36,72384,11102],"class_list":{"0":"post-175031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-auction","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-rodin","13":"tag-sculpture"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114663492405502866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}