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The audacious dialogue between the works of Mapplethorpe and Rodin is well established in the most perfect and obvious complicity. The photographs and the sculptures of these two masters so different in their temperaments converse together in their strength and sensuality.
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989),
Patti Smith, 1979, MAP 229 © 2014 Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917),
Les Bourgeois de Calais : Jean de Fiennes, variante du personnage de la deuxième maquette, torse nu, vers 1885, plâtre,
72 x 50,5 x 45 cm, Paris, musée Rodin, S. 432 © Paris, musée Rodin, ph. C. Baraja
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