Kunstmuseum Basel Courtyard

Kunstmuseum Basel Courtyard

Auguste Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais (Die Bürger von Calais / Les bourgeois de Calais), 1884–1889, cast in 1942/43, was the seventh of the 12 versions produced. Anyone may walk into the museum’s courtyard to see it for free, together with Alexander Calder’s Big Spider, 1959.

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