Portrait of August Strindberg

Additional texteExhibition text: Like many other artists, not to mention women sculptors, Agnes de Frumerie went to Paris to study. She ended up staying there for nearly 30 years. Early on, she realised how innovative Rodin was. In a letter from 1895 to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, de Frumerie describes him as “a modern-day Michel-Angelo, as unafraid and magnificent as he, with the same disdain for rules and the same capacity to be himself as he, in the midst of his contemporaries, who seek in vain to imitate him”.