The small marble sculpture, believed to be a fake by its owners, ended up being the real deal: a 1892 Auguste Rodin. It sold for auction on Monday for nearly one million dollars.

A sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin that had disappeared from public view for almost 120 years and was thought to be a copy has sold for 860,000 euros ($984,000) at auction.

A Family Thought the Sculpture on Their Piano Was a ‘Fake’ Rodin. Now It’s Sold for Nearly $1 Million A sculpture by French ...

If you were French sculptor Auguste Rodin, how would you mark your own gravestone? When the artist’s wife, Rose Beuret, died in 1917, he had a bronze cast of his celebrated Thinker placed on her ...

A small marble sculpture thought to be a copy of the French artist Auguste Rodin's work has turned out to be the real thing, selling for almost $1m at an auction in France on Monday. The sculpture ...

NEED TO KNOW. A sculpture believed to be a fake copy of French artist Auguste Rodin's work has sold for almost $1 million. Auction house Rouillac revealed the sculpture named Le Désespoir had not ...

A small marble sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, which was long thought to be a copy, has fetched €860,000 at an auction in France, at the Château de Villandry (Indre-et-Loire), according to ...

The small marble figure was an 1892 work “Despair” by Auguste Rodin. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Auguste Rodin has been featured in articles for BBC News, Apollo and ArtDaily. The most recent article is Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction written for ArtLyst in June 2025.