Erbil Arkın first saw Rodin's The Kiss in 1966 when he was just 16 years old and, as he describes, he was instantly captivated. Years later, in 2004, he purchased his first Rodin sculpture, The Head of Lust, at a Sotheby’s auction.
A statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, part of his famous Les Bourgeois de Calais group, is currently “unlocated” in Glasgow’s art collections, museum officials have said. The sculpture is worth €3.5m (£3m). The plaster sculpture, bought by Glasgow Museums from