The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Auguste Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose. Above, The Thinker (Le Penseur) is pictured ahead of the Musée Rodin's reopening in November 2015. more...
Romantic Snowy in Paris France
Paris in the snow Alix Bancourt painting
Gustave Caillebotte, French, 1848-1894, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877 Gustave Caillebotte, whose personal works were forgotten until recently, was all together a recognized painter and a generous patron of the Impressionist movement. He was born in 1848 in a very rich family which made its fortune in textiles industry then in real estate business as Baron Haussmann was rebuilding Paris. Engineer by profession, but also former student of the Fine Arts ...
Gustave Caillebotte plays with perspective in his 1880 work Interior, A Woman Reading. Private Collection/Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art If you're planning to become an artist, here's one nice way to do it: be independently ...
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