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Sculpture by Auguste Rodin

Octave Mirbeau

Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	1895
Medium	Plaster
Location	Museo Soumaya, Mexico City

Octave Mirbeau is an 1895 plaster relief by Auguste Rodin of the writer Octave Mirbeau, now in the Museo Soumaya. He had got to know him thanks to The Age of Bronze and The Gates of Hell - Mirbeau visited Rodin's studio, published the first description of Gates in the review La France, promoted Rodin's other work and died only a few months before the sculptor.

Rodin showed on several occasions gratitude towards the writer who played the important role of promoter of his work.

Death

Mirbeau died on 16 February 1917, a few months before Auguste Rodin.

References

"Biografía de Octave Mirbeau" (in Spanish).
La Puerta del Infierno (in Spanish, English, and French). Fundación Carlos Slim A.C. 2016. p. 398.
"La Puerta del Infierno". Revista mensual. Museo Soumaya. June 2016.

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Media related to Octave Mirbeau by Auguste Rodin at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Auguste Rodin
Works	List of sculptures Man with the Broken Nose (1863) Alsatian Orphan (1871) Suzon (1872–73) The Age of Bronze (1876) La Defense (1879) The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880) The Shade (1880) The Gates of Hell (1880/1917) The Thinker (1880, locations) Adam (1880–81) Eve (1881) Crouching Woman (1880–1882) Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907) Ugolino and His Sons (1881) The Kiss (1882) I Am Beautiful (1882) The Falling Man (1882) Jules Dalou (1883) Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883) Bust of Victor Hugo (1883) Eternal Springtime (1884) Torso of Adele (c. 1884) The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889) Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911) The Prodigal Son (1885) Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885) The Martyr (1885) Psyche Looking at Love (1885) Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885–86) Jean d'Aire (1885–86) Jean de Fiennes (1885–86) Avarice and Lust (1885–1887) Damned Women (1885–1890) The Old Tree (1885) Paolo and Francesca (1885) Young Mother (1885) Young Mother in the Grotto (1885) Young Woman with a Serpent (c. 1885) The Three Shades (1886) Meditation (1886) Fugitive Love (1886–87) Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889) Pierre de Wiessant (1887) Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887) The Sirens (1887) Polyphemus (1888) Standing Mercury (1888) The Kneeling Man (1888) Adonis Awakens (1889) Andromeda (1889) Glaucus (1889) Kneeling Female Faun (1889) The Succubus (1889) Despair (c. 1890) Brother and Sister (1890) Danaid (1890) Cybele (1890/1904) Monument to Balzac (1892–1897) Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892) Youth Triumphant (c. 1894) Octave Mirdeau (1895) Iris, Messenger of the Gods (c. 1895) Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896) The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99) Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900) The Athlete (1901–1904) The Death of Adonis (1903–1906) Adam and Eve (1905) The Walking Man (1907) The Cathedral (1908) The Prayer (1909) Standing Female Faun (1910)
Museums	Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron), Paris Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museu Rodin Bahia, Salvador Plateau (closed)
People	Camille Claudel
Depictions	1888–89 Claudel bust 1909 Bourdelle bust Rodin — The Thinker (1902 photograph) Camille Claudel (1988 film) Camille Claudel (2003 musical) Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film) Rodin (2017 film)
Related	Rodin (crater)
Category Commons

v t e Octave Mirbeau
Novels	Le Calvaire (1886) Abbé Jules (1888) Sébastien Roch (1890) Dans le ciel (1893) Les Mémoires de mon ami (1899) The Torture Garden (1899) The Diary of a Chambermaid (1900) Les Vingt et un Jours d'un neurasthénique (1900) Dingo (1913) Un gentilhomme (1920)
Drama	Les Mauvais Bergers (1897) Business is business (1903) Farces et moralités (1904) Home (1908)
Other works	Lettres de l'Inde (1885) La 628-E8 (1907) La Mort de Balzac (1918) L'Amour de la femme vénale (1922) Contes cruels (1990) Combats littéraires (2006)
Characters	Célestine Clara Isidore Lechat Lucien Père Pamphile Jean Roule
Miscellaneous	Cahiers Octave Mirbeau Octave Mirbeau (sculpture)

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