, Wildenstein Institute 1989, cartonnage illustre de l'editeur, 204 pages, 320 ill. 29 x 28.8 cm. 2,6 kg. ISBN 9782908063042.
The first volume of the catalogue raisonne of the work of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) covers the period 1840-1886, treating his apprenticeship at the Ecole imperiale speciale de dessin et de mathematiques, his collaboration with the sculptor Carrier-Belleuse, his first trip to Italy, the difficulties of his early career, and his first successes. The volume closes with an evocation of his meeting with Camille Claudel and the elaboration of his Portes de l'Enfer, both events announcing the decisive turn that Rodin's life, art and thinking were about to take.