Rodin’s Mistress Emerges As Artist
Better known for her passionate, tragic relationship with Rodin and her 30-year confinement in a psychiatric hospital near Avignon, Camille Claudel was largely forgotten as an artist until the late 1970s. A new museum holds most of the sculptures that she did not destroy when her affair with Rodin ended. I must admit I know this story mostly from the 1989 movie “Camille Claudel” starring Depardieu as Rodin and Isabelle Adjani as Claudel.
