Editing Auguste Rodin (section)

===Great Britain===
After the start of the 20th century, Rodin was a regular visitor to Great Britain, where he developed a loyal following by the beginning of the First World War. He first visited England in 1881, where his friend, the artist [[Alphonse Legros]], had introduced him to the poet [[William Ernest Henley]]. With his personal connections and enthusiasm for Rodin's art, Henley was most responsible for Rodin's reception in Britain.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Newton|first=Joy|title=Rodin Is a British Institution|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=136|issue=1101|year=1994|pages=822–28}}</ref> Rodin later returned the favor by sculpting a [[:File:HenleyRodin.JPG|bust of Henley]] that was used as the frontispiece to Henley's collected works and, after his death, on his monument in London.<ref name=b1>{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Henley, William Ernest|volume=2|pages=244, 246}}</ref>

Through Henley, Rodin met [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] and [[Robert Browning]], in whom he found further support.<ref>Hale, 73.</ref> Encouraged by the enthusiasm of British artists, students, and high society for his art, Rodin donated a selection of his works to the nation in 1914.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rodin Gift to the V&A · V&A |url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-rodin-gift-to-the-va |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=[[Victoria and Albert Museum]] |language=en}}</ref>

After the revitalization of the [[Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts]] in 1890, Rodin served as the body's vice-president.<ref>{{cite web|title=Biography |publisher=Musée Rodin |url=http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/chronology-auguste-rodin |access-date=15 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207201859/http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/chronology-auguste-rodin |archive-date=7 December 2011 }}</ref> In 1903, Rodin was elected president of the [[International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers|International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers]]. He replaced its former president, [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]], upon Whistler's death. His election to the prestigious position was largely due to the efforts of [[Albert Ludovici]], father of English philosopher [[Anthony Ludovici]], who was private secretary to Rodin for several months in 1906, but the two men parted company after Christmas, "to their mutual relief."<ref>Ludovici, Anthony M. (1923). "Personal Reminiscences of Auguste Rodin", ''Cornhill Magazine'', Vol. LV, Nos. 325–26, New Series.</ref>

During his later creative years, Rodin's work turned increasingly toward the female form, and themes of more overt masculinity and femininity.<ref name="bell"/> He concentrated on small dance studies, and produced numerous [[Erotic art|erotic drawings]], sketched in a loose way, without taking his pencil from the paper or his eyes from the model. Rodin met American dancer [[Isadora Duncan]] in 1900, attempted to seduce her,<ref>Hale, 10.</ref> and the next year sketched studies of her and her students. In July 1906, Rodin was also enchanted by dancers from the Royal Ballet of Cambodia and produced some of his most famous drawings from the experience.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rodin Show Visits Home Of Artist's Muses|author=Kinetz, Erica|newspaper=The New York Times|date=27 December 2006|page=E1}}</ref>

Fifty-three years into their relationship, Rodin married Rose Beuret. They married on 29 January 1917, and Beuret died two weeks later, on 16 February.<ref name="nyt171117">{{cite news
| title = Auguste Rodin Gravely Ill
| work = The New York Times
| page = 13
| date = 17 November 1917
}}</ref> Rodin was ill that year; in January, he suffered weakness from [[influenza]],<ref>{{cite news
| title = Auguste Rodin Has Grip
| work = The New York Times
| page = 3
| date = 30 January 1917
}}</ref> and on 16 November his physician announced that "congestion of the lungs has caused great weakness. The patient's condition is grave."<ref name="nyt171117"/> Rodin died the next day, age 77, at his villa<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musee-rodin.fr/|title=Accueil – Musée Rodin|work=musee-rodin.fr|access-date=14 March 2017|archive-date=9 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409004431/http://www.musee-rodin.fr/|url-status=live}}</ref> in [[Meudon]], [[Île-de-France]], on the outskirts of Paris.<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news
| title = Rodin, Famous Sculptor, Dead
| work = The New York Times
| page = E3
| date = 18 November 1917
}}</ref>

A cast of ''The Thinker'' was placed next to his tomb in Meudon; it was Rodin's wish that the figure served as his [[headstone]] and [[epitaph]].<ref>Elsen, 52.</ref> In 1923, Marcell Tirel, Rodin's secretary, published a book alleging that Rodin's death was largely due to cold, and the fact that he had no heat at Meudon. Rodin requested permission to stay in the [[Hotel Biron]], a museum of his works, but the director of the museum refused to let him stay there.<ref>{{cite magazine|title = Art: Rodin's Death | magazine = Time | date = 24 March 1923 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,727018,00.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071106015309/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,727018,00.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 6 November 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Duh!: The Stupid History of the Human Race | first = Bob | last = Fenster | page = [https://archive.org/details/duhstupidhistory00bobf/page/99 99] | publisher = Andrews McMeel | location = Kansas City | isbn = 0-7407-1002-8 | year = 2000 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/duhstupidhistory00bobf/page/99 }}</ref>

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File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R38535, Auguste Rodin.jpg|Rodin in 1914
File:Musée Rodin de Meudon 04.jpg|Rodin's gravesite at the Musée Rodin de Meudon
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