At the Musée Rodin last Saturday, along with the Camille Claudel room that I wrote about yesterday, I was also thrille to discover a 1907 painting by Edvard Munch (1863-1944), "Rodin's 'Le Penseur' in Dr. Linde's Garden in Lübeck." Munch lights up the black bronze of Rodin's 1904 sculpture with swirling pink and green patterns against the background of colorful foliage in a style reminiscent of Paul Cézanne's approach to painting trees. The vivid coloring of this painting was not only a delightful change of pace in the midst of the intensity of Rodin's black bronzes, it was a pleasant, joyous surprise in my experience of Munch's otherwise often anxious work. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 30 July 2026)

In this painting, Rodin’s “The Thinker” is on the centre-right, colored in pink, green, and black, on a pinkish pedestal, with trees and foliage in the background, as well as a few small human figures. — Edvard Munch, Le Penseur de Rodin dans le parc du Docteur Linde à Lübeck, 1907, Musée Rodin, public domain

Edvard Munch’s 1907 painting of Auguste Rodin’s “Le Penseur"