Emerson Bowyer, Searle Curator in Painting and Sculpture of Europe, traces the tumultuous life and triumphant artistry at the center of Camille Claudel.

A renegade artist, sculptor Camille Claudel fought against the social currents of her time to pursue her fiercely independent artistic vision. Her inventive and expressive depictions of the human form—whether in clay, plaster, bronze, and stone—tackled emotionally charged themes of love, loss, and desire that resonate loudly over a century later.