Auguste Rodin

From Paris, with love: Rodin’s Thinker at Abu Dhabi Louvre

From Paris, with love: Rodin’s Thinker at Abu Dhabi Louvre

  • The bronze sculpture, on loan for a year from the Rodin Museum in Paris, is one of the original castings made by Auguste Rodin, sometime between 1881 and 1882
  • Abu Dhabi agreed to pay France $525m for the use of the Louvre name for the next 30 years, plus another $750m to hire French managers to oversee the 300 loaned works
By AP ·