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Speaker 1: Today is December eighteen. The day was December eighth, eighteen

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Speaker 1: sixty four. French sculptor Camille Clodell was born in Fair Untard, Nois, France.

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Speaker 1: A lot of emphasis has been placed on her relationship

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Speaker 1: with sculptor Augusta Rodin, but Clodel herself was a prolific

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Speaker 1: and acclaimed artist. Clodell was the oldest of three children,

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Speaker 1: born to Louise Athene's Servox Cloudel and Louis Prosper Clodell.

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Speaker 1: They weren't rich, but they moved from time to time

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Speaker 1: because her father was a civil servant, and they lived comfortably.

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Speaker 1: They stayed for a while in vill nove So Fair,

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Speaker 1: in var Les Duke, and in New john Sissin. Clodell

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Speaker 1: took an interest in art early on, and while her

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Speaker 1: mother was not too fond for her love of art,

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Speaker 1: her father supported her, so did her brother, who became

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Speaker 1: a noted poet in playwright. As a child, Clodell created

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Speaker 1: clay modeled portraits of her family members while the family

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Speaker 1: lived in New john Cisin. Clodell's artwork attracted the attention

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Speaker 1: of prominent sculptor Alfred Bouche. Bouche advised her father to

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Speaker 1: encourage her art and enroll her in an art academy.

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Speaker 1: Around eighteen one, Clodel, her mother, and her siblings moved

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Speaker 1: to Paris, while her father stayed behind for work. In Paris,

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Speaker 1: she continued to train as a sculptor. Only men could

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Speaker 1: attend the at Cole de bous Arts, a prestigious art

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Speaker 1: school in Paris, but there were private academies that allowed

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Speaker 1: women to attend. Clodell began attending the Colossi Academy, where

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Speaker 1: she met her lifelong friend Jesse Lipscomb. The first sculptures

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Speaker 1: that Clodell completed at Colossi are her earliest surviving works.

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Speaker 1: Boucher mentored Clodell while she was in Paris, and he

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Speaker 1: visited Clodell in Lipscomb's studio to advise them. Boucher soon

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Speaker 1: left for Italy, but before he left he asked Augusta

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Speaker 1: Rodon to take his place and tutor his protegees. By

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Speaker 1: that time, Rodon was not yet considered a master, but

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Speaker 1: was a celebrated sculptor. Clodel and Rodan then began a complicated,

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Speaker 1: years long relationship in which Clodell became Rodan's assistant, model, collaborator,

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Speaker 1: and lover. Under Rodan's mentorship, she was able to study

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Speaker 1: the new figure and anatomy, while Clodell continued to produce

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Speaker 1: her own artwork. She also contributed to many of Rodon's sculptures.

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Speaker 1: Rodon's assistants, including Clodale, were integral in shaping Rodon's reputation

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Speaker 1: as a prolific artist. Many art historians suggest that Rodon

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Speaker 1: Clodell influenced each other's artwork. The pairs romantic and professional

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Speaker 1: relationship lasted for more than a decade, but their relationship

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Speaker 1: began to fall apart when Rodon refused to leave Rose Baret,

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Speaker 1: the mother of his child, whom he lived with. Letters

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Speaker 1: Clodell wrote showed her resentment of Rodon and Beret. Still,

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Speaker 1: she was productive and her art was recognized. In the

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Speaker 1: eighteen nineties, she exhibited sculptures at celebrated salons and in galleries,

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Speaker 1: but in the early nineteen hundreds Clodell destroyed a lot

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Speaker 1: of the arts she worked obsessively to create. Even though

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Speaker 1: she had some support from art critics, she became more

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Speaker 1: isolated in her studio and struggled with money. She also

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Speaker 1: grew obsessive about Rodan's in discretions. After her father died

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Speaker 1: in nineteen thirteen, her brother Paul had her admitted to

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Speaker 1: an asylum near Paris, and the next year she was

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Speaker 1: transferred to a different asylum. For the last few decades

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Speaker 1: of her life, Clodel remained in the asylum. She gave

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Speaker 1: up sculpting, and even though doctors recommended to be released,

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Speaker 1: her family wanted her to stay in the institution. She

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Speaker 1: died while hospitalized in nine and was buried in a

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Speaker 1: mass grave at the asylum. Though a lot of her

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Speaker 1: work was destroyed and her artistic success overshadowed by her

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Speaker 1: relationship with Rhodan, many of her sculptures in drawings survive

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Speaker 1: and are celebrated for their dynamism and portrayal of emotion.

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