Medardo Rosso’s Amorphous Sculptures Go On View in Basel

Medardo Rosso’s Amorphous Sculptures Go On View in Basel

The artist in his Paris studio, 1890. The amorphous sculptures of the 20th-century artist who was a friend of Renoir’s, a rival of Rodin’s, and a mentor to Brancusi go on view in Basel By Nicholas Fox Weber Medardo Rosso is not a name you are likely to know, but Renoir and Degas looked up to him as a friend who went in directions they would not have dared. Later artists, from the Italian futurists to Brancusi, considered him a mentor. Rosso’s ex…