Editing Auguste Rodin (section)

==Legacy==
Rodin willed to the French state his studio and the right to make casts from his plasters. Because he encouraged the edition of his sculpted work, Rodin's sculptures are represented in many public and private collections. The [[Musée Rodin]] was founded in 1916 and opened in 1919 at the [[Hôtel Biron]], where Rodin had lived, and it holds the largest Rodin collection, with more than 6,000 sculptures and 7,000 works on paper. The French order {{lang|fr|[[Légion d'honneur]]}} made him a Commander,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=COTE&VALUE_1=LH/2779/35 |title=Rodin, Légion d'honneur, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Léonore, Culture.gouv.fr |access-date=27 July 2015 |archive-date=25 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925172755/http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=COTE&VALUE_1=LH/2779/35 |url-status=live }}</ref> and he received an honorary doctorate from the [[University of Oxford]] in 1907.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Rodin drawing {{!}} British Museum |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1931-0613-18 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230605091650/https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1931-0613-18 |archive-date=2023-06-05 |access-date=2025-04-03 |work=The British Museum |language=en}}</ref>

During his lifetime, Rodin was compared to [[Michelangelo]],<ref name="alhadeff">{{cite journal|first=Albert|last= Alhadeff|title=Rodin: A Self-Portrait in the Gates of Hell|journal=The Art Bulletin|volume=48|issue=3/4|year=1966|pages=393–95|doi=10.2307/3048395|jstor=3048395}}</ref> and was widely recognized as the greatest artist of the era.<ref name="hunisak">{{cite journal|title=Rodin Rediscovered|first=John M.|last=Hunisak|journal=Art Journal|volume=41|year=1981|pages=370–71|doi=10.2307/776450|issue=4|jstor=776450}}</ref> In the three decades following his death, his popularity waned with changing aesthetic values.<ref name="hunisak"/> Since the 1950s, Rodin's reputation has re-ascended;<ref name="werner">{{cite journal|author=Werner, Alfred|title=The Return of Auguste Rodin|journal=Criticism|volume=2|issue=1|year=1960|pages=48–54}}</ref> he is recognized as the most important sculptor of the modern era, and has been the subject of much scholarly work.<ref name="hunisak"/><ref name="gardner">{{cite journal|title=The Hand of Rodin|first=Albert Ten Eyck|last=Gardner|journal=The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin |series=New Series|volume=15|issue=9|year=1957|pages=200–04|doi=10.2307/3257752|jstor=3257752}}</ref> The sense of incompletion offered by some of his sculpture, such as ''The Walking Man'', influenced the increasingly abstract sculptural forms of the 20th century.<ref>Taillandier, 23.</ref>

Rodin restored an ancient role of sculpture – to capture the physical and intellectual force of the human subject<ref name="gardner"/> – and he freed sculpture from the repetition of traditional patterns, providing the foundation for greater experimentation in the 20th century. His popularity is ascribed to his emotion-laden representations of ordinary men and women – to his ability to find the beauty and pathos in the human animal. His most popular works, such as ''The Kiss'' and ''The Thinker'', are widely used outside the fine arts as symbols of human emotion and character.<ref name="grove">{{cite web|title=Rodin, (François-) Auguste (-René)|publisher=Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press|url=http://www.groveart.com/shared/views/article.html?section=art.072591|author=Lampert, Catherine|access-date=19 December 2006}}</ref> To honor Rodin's artistic legacy, the Google search engine homepage displayed a [[Google Doodle]] featuring ''The Thinker'' to celebrate his 172nd birthday on 12 November 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwartz |first=Barry |date=2012-11-12 |title=The Thinker Google Doodle For Auguste Rodin's Birthday |url=https://searchengineland.com/the-thinker-google-doodle-for-auguste-rodins-birthday-139376 |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Search Engine Land |language=en}}</ref>

Rodin had enormous artistic influence. A whole generation of sculptors studied in his workshop. These include [[Gutzon Borglum]], [[Antoine Bourdelle]], [[Constantin Brâncuși]], [[Camille Claudel]], [[Charles Despiau]], [[Malvina Hoffman]], [[Carl Milles]], [[François Pompon]], [[Rodo]], [[Gustav Vigeland]], [[Clara Westhoff]] and [[Margaret Winser]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1389636|title=WAR MEMORIAL IN ALEXANDRA PARK, Non Civil Parish – 1389636 &#124; Historic England|website=historicengland.org.uk|access-date=11 January 2020|archive-date=11 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111153840/https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1389636|url-status=live}}</ref> even though Brancusi later rejected his legacy. Rodin also promoted the work of other sculptors, including [[Aristide Maillol]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Hans de Roos|url=http://www.rodin-web.org/approach_art/cap18.htm|date=2004|title=Rodin's Approach to Art|access-date=26 July 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092747/http://www.rodin-web.org/approach_art/cap18.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Ivan Meštrović]] whom Rodin once called "the greatest phenomenon amongst sculptors."<ref>{{cite web|website=Syracuse University Archives|title=Ivan Meštrović Papers|url=http://archives.syr.edu/collections/fac_staff/sua_mestrovic_i.htm|date=2011|author1=Ameena Mohammad|author2=Meg Mason|name-list-style=amp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906134906/http://archives.syr.edu/collections/fac_staff/sua_mestrovic_i.htm|archive-date=6 September 2015}}</ref> Other sculptors whose work has been described as owing to Rodin include [[Joseph Csaky]],<ref name="Edith Balas, 1998">[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0T8LAAAAIAAJ Edith Balas, 1998, ''Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture''], Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society</ref><ref name="Guggenheim">{{Cite web|url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/1069|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920164313/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/1069|url-status=dead|title=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, ''Joseph Csáky'', Collection Online|archive-date=20 September 2015}}</ref> [[Alexander Archipenko]], [[Joseph Bernard (sculptor)|Joseph Bernard]], [[Henri Gaudier-Brzeska]], [[Georg Kolbe]],<ref>{{cite web|website=Museum of Modern Art|url=https://www.moma.org/collection_ge/artist.php?artist_id=3199|title=German Expressionism: Georg Kolbe|author=Heather Hess|date=2011|access-date=27 July 2015|archive-date=8 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108020512/https://www.moma.org/collection_ge/artist.php?artist_id=3199|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Wilhelm Lehmbruck]], [[Jacques Lipchitz]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Adolfo Wildt]],<ref>{{cite web|website=Peggy Guggenheim Collection|title=Adolfo Wildt|url=http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=211|access-date=27 July 2015|archive-date=8 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308151222/http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/biografia.php?id_art=211|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Ossip Zadkine]].<ref>{{cite web|website=Musée d'Orsay|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-musee-dorsay/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay-more/article/oublier-rodin-20468.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=649&cHash=24aea49762|title=Leaving Rodin behind? Sculpture in Paris, 1905–1914|date=2006|access-date=26 July 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203313/http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-musee-dorsay/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay-more/article/oublier-rodin-20468.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=649&cHash=24aea49762|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=Musée Rodin|title=Rodin and Modernism|url=http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/rodin/educational-files/rodin-and-modernism|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621061226/http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/rodin/educational-files/rodin-and-modernism|archive-date=21 June 2015}}</ref> [[Henry Moore]] acknowledged Rodin's seminal influence on his work.<ref>{{cite web|website=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/mar/23/henry-moore-auguste-rodin-exhibition|date=23 March 2013|title=Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive|access-date=11 December 2016|archive-date=18 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118130830/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/mar/23/henry-moore-auguste-rodin-exhibition|url-status=live}}</ref>

Several films have been made featuring Rodin as a prominent character or presence. These include ''[[Camille Claudel (film)|Camille Claudel]]'', a 1988 film in which [[Gérard Depardieu]] portrays Rodin, ''[[Camille Claudel 1915]]'' from 2013, and ''[[Rodin (film)|Rodin]]'', a 2017 film starring [[Vincent Lindon]] as Rodin.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Peter |title=Rodin review – Jacques Doillon sculpts an excruciatingly bad film |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/23/rodin-review-jacques-doillon-vincent-lindon-cannes-2017 |access-date=28 December 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=11 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111194544/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/23/rodin-review-jacques-doillon-vincent-lindon-cannes-2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Furthermore, the [[Rodin Studios]] artists' cooperative housing in New York City, completed in 1917 to designs by [[Cass Gilbert]], was named after Rodin.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gray|first=Christopher|date=14 May 2006|title=Living Spaces Tailor-Made for Artists|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/realestate/living-spaces-tailormade-for-artists.html|access-date=14 November 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=20 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120073014/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/realestate/living-spaces-tailormade-for-artists.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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File:Kiss Rodin.jpg|''[[The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)|The Kiss]]'', 1889
File:Auguste Rodin signature.jpg|alt=Artist's signature is raised above the surface of a sculpture.|Rodin's signature on ''[[The Thinker]]''
File:Musee Rodin.jpg|The grounds of [[Musée Rodin]]
File:Philly042107-009-RodinMuseum.jpg|[[Rodin Museum]], Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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===Forgeries===
The relative ease of making reproductions has also encouraged many forgeries: a survey of expert opinion placed Rodin in the top ten most-faked artists.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The 10 Most Faked Artists|journal=ARTnews|author=Esterow, Milton|date=June 2005|access-date=5 February 2007|url=http://www.artnews.com/2005/06/01/the-10-most-faked-artists/|archive-date=16 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116042449/http://www.artnews.com/2005/06/01/the-10-most-faked-artists/|url-status=live}}</ref> Rodin fought against forgeries of his works as early as 1901, and since his death, many cases of organized, large-scale forgeries have been revealed. A massive forgery was discovered by French authorities in the early 1990s and led to the conviction of art dealer [[Guy Hain]].<ref>[http://www.lejournaldesarts.fr/jda/archives/docs_article/49618/proces-guy-hain-une-decision-qui-fera-jurisprudence.php Procès Guy Hain, une décision qui fera jurisprudence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051720/http://www.lejournaldesarts.fr/jda/archives/docs_article/49618/proces-guy-hain-une-decision-qui-fera-jurisprudence.php |date=4 March 2016 }}. Le Journal des Arts. n° 126. 27 April 2001. Artclair.com. Retrieved on 2 November 2011.</ref>

To deal with the complexity of bronze reproduction, France has promulgated several laws since 1956 which limit reproduction to twelve casts – the maximum number that can be made from an artist's plasters and still be considered his work. As a result of this limit, ''[[The Burghers of Calais]]'', for example, is found in fourteen cities.<ref name="swedberg"/>

In the market for sculpture, plagued by fakes, the value of a piece increases significantly when its provenance can be established. A Rodin work with a verified history sold for US$4.8&nbsp;million in 1999,<ref>{{cite journal|author=Winship, Frederick M.|title=Bogus bronzes flood market: an estimated 4,000 fake castings have put the market for 19th- and 20th-century bronze sculpture in jeopardy|journal=Insight on the News|date=16 September 2002|volume=26|issue=1}}</ref> and Rodin's bronze ''Ève, grand modele – version sans rocher'' sold for $18.9&nbsp;million at a 2008 [[Christie's]] auction in New York.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=AFP |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJ-nuOHmXSBq7_MFQrllsC6jrt4A |title=Monet fetches record price at New York auction |access-date=8 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512060740/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJ-nuOHmXSBq7_MFQrllsC6jrt4A |archive-date=12 May 2008 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Art critics concerned about authenticity have argued that taking a cast does not equal reproducing a Rodin sculpture – especially given the importance of surface treatment in Rodin's work.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The real Rodin|journal=New Criterion|author=Gibson, Eric|year=2005|issue=4|volume=24|pages=37–40}}</ref>

A number of drawings previously attributed to Rodin are now known to have been forged by [[Ernest Durig]].<ref name="FoF">{{Cite episode |title=Rodin |series=Fake or Fortune? |series-link=Fake or Fortune? |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07n204m |access-date=31 July 2016 |network=[[BBC Television]] |date=31 July 2016 |series-no=5 |number=3 }}</ref>