Any old excuse, really, will do. Auguste Rodin is one of those artists, actually quite rare, for whom the mantle of greatness fits just right. Rodin is everywhere in America, but there’s never a ...

But until he was 40 years old, Rodin earned his living assisting other artists. As a younger man he had twice failed to gain admission to Paris’s fine-art academy, while the state salons ...

Auguste Rodin, The Walking Man, original model 1907, cast 1965. Bronze. Photo William Jaeger Auguste Rodin, Figure of a Woman, before 1888, carved 1909. Marble. Photo William Jaeger Auguste Rodin ...