On the 16th (local time), at an auction held at the Orléans auction house in the south of Paris, Claudel's "The Age of Mature"
"Mature Age" was sold for 3.1 million euros (approximately 492.06 million yen), far exceeding the estimated price. Mathieu Sémon of the auction company said, "The
The work was discovered by chance in September last year after having been abandoned for about 15 years in an abandoned apartment near the Eiffel Tower."
"The Age of Mature" marks Claudel's separation from the sculptor Auguste Rodin.
This work, created after the death of her husband, depicts an old man being led by an old woman and a young woman kneeling and begging him. It is considered a symbolic representation of her failed love with Rodin, and is one of the most famous works of its kind.
Two versions of the sculpture are currently on display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Musée Camille Claudel outside Paris.
Claudel is also well known for her tragic life. In 1913, Claudel's brother
Before confining her to a psychiatric hospital, many of her works were destroyed, and only a few remain today.
Waltz was previously sold at auction for $8 million in 2013.
2025/02/18 10:04 KST
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