The Pose

Published on the occasion of the itinerant exhibition 'Pose and Variations. Sculpture in Paris in the age of Rodin', presented firstly in Lisbon and subsequently in Copenhagen, the present catalogue is the result of the contribution of several international specialists.0The publication opens with a small introductory text, written by Penelope Curtis and Christine Buhl Andersen, directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen respectively. The text is followed by two essays on the founders of these collections, focused on the interests Calouste Gulbenkian and Carl Jacobsen shared on nineteenth-century French sculpture and the collectors? preferences and acquisitions.00Exhibition: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (26.10.2018-04.02.2019) / Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (01.03-16.06.2019).