Hidden Rodin sculpture, worth millions, on its way to Philadelphia

Monday, October 23, 2017
A Rodin sculpture worth millions of dollars was discovered hiding in plain sight in North Jersey and is on its way to Philadelphia.

A marble bust of Napoleon has been sitting in a corner of the Hartley Dodge Memorial building in Madison for decades.
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No one knew it was a Rodin until the foundation hired Mallory Mortillaro three years ago.

She was helping to catalog their collection when she made the discovery.

Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge donated all of the antiquities including the French sculpture.

The bust will be loaned to the Philadelphia Museum of Art next month for the 100th anniversary of Rodin's death.
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