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4 unusual facts about Camille Claudel


Camille Claudel

Composer Jeremy Beck's Death of a Little Girl with Doves (1998), an operatic soliloquy for soprano and orchestra, is based on the life and letters of Camille Claudel.

Difficult Women

The show contains over four hours of material on visionary women such as Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Memphis Minnie, Sonya Tolstoi, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Camille Claudel, Katherine Mansfield and Louisa Lawson.

Jessie Lipscomb

In 1887 she exhibited another terra-cotta piece entitled Sans Souci, and a plaster portrait of Camille Claudel.

Two previous graduates of the National Art Training School - Amy Singer and Emily Fawcett - were already living in Paris, and sharing a studio with the young Camille Claudel.


Nan Knighton

Collaborating with composer Frank Wildhorn, she wrote the libretto and lyrics of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997) and Camille Claudel (2003), as well as additional lyrics for Rudolf (2006).


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