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Rilke stayed with Rodin in 1905 and 1906, and did administrative work for him; he would later write a laudatory [[monograph]] on the sculptor. Rodin and Beuret's modest country estate in [[Meudon]], purchased in 1897, was a host to such visitors as [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward]], dancer [[Isadora Duncan]], and [[harpsichord]]ist [[Wanda Landowska]]. Rodin moved to the city in 1908, renting the main floor of the [[Hôtel Biron]], an 18th-century townhouse. He left Beuret in Meudon, and began an affair with the American-born Duchesse de Choiseul.<ref name="julius">{{cite journal|author=Julius, Muriel|title=Human Emotion Made Tangible – The Work of Auguste Rodin|journal=Contemporary Review|volume=250|issue=1452|date=January 1987|page=41}}</ref> From 1910, he mentored the Russian sculptor, [[Moissey Kogan]].<ref name=Medals>{{cite web|url=http://www.medaillenkunst.de/index.php?person_id=241|title=Moissey Kogan|publisher=DGM|accessdate=30 March 2017}}</ref>
===Verenigde State===
[[File:Auguste Rodin, 1881-ca.1899, Éve, bronze, Jardin des Tuilleries, Paris. DSC09221.jpg|thumb|''[[Eve (Rodin)|Éve]]'', 1881-ca.1899 brons, [[Tuileries Tuine|Jardin des Tuileries]], Parys]]
While Rodin was beginning to be accepted in France by the time of ''The Burghers of Calais'', he had not yet conquered the American market. Because of his technique and the frankness of some of his work, he did not have an easy time selling his work to American industrialists. However, he came to know [[Sarah Tyson Hallowell]] (1846–1924), a curator from Chicago who visited Paris to arrange exhibitions at the large Interstate Expositions of the 1870s and 1880s. Hallowell was not only a curator but an adviser and a facilitator who was trusted by a number of prominent American collectors to suggest works for their collections, the most prominent of these being the Chicago hotelier [[Potter Palmer]] and his wife, [[Bertha Palmer]] (1849–1918).
The next opportunity for Rodin in America was the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition|Chicago World's Fair]].<ref>The Indefatigable Miss Hallowell, Page 6</ref> Hallowell wanted to help promote Rodin's work and he suggested a solo exhibition, which she wrote him was ''beaucoup moins beau que l'original'' but impossible, outside the rules. Instead, she suggested he send a number of works for her loan exhibition of French art from American collections and she told him she would list them as being part of an American collection.<ref>''Rodin: The Shape of Genius'', Page 399</ref> Rodin sent Hallowell three works, ''Cupid and Psyche'', ''Sphinx'' and ''[[Andromeda (Rodin)|Andromeda]]''. All nudes, these works provoked great controversy and were ultimately hidden behind a drape with special permission given for viewers to see them.<ref name="The Documented Image, Page 97">The Documented Image, Page 97</ref>
''Bust of Dalou'' and ''Burgher of Calais'' were on display in the official French pavilion at the fair and so between the works that were on display and those that were not, he was noticed. However, the works he gave Hallowell to sell found no takers, but she soon brought the controversial Quaker-born financier [[Charles Yerkes]] (1837–1905) into the fold and he purchased two large marbles for his Chicago manse;<ref name="The Documented Image, Page 97"/> Yerkes was likely the first American to own a Rodin sculpture.<ref>Franch, John (2006). ''Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes.'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press; p. 209.</ref>
Other collectors soon followed including the tastemaking Potter Palmers of Chicago and [[Isabella Stewart Gardner]] (1840–1924) of Boston, all arranged by Sarah Hallowell. In appreciation for her efforts at unlocking the American market, Rodin eventually presented Hallowell with a bronze, a marble and a terra cotta. When Hallowell moved to Paris in 1893, she and Rodin continued their warm friendship and correspondence, which lasted to the end of the sculptor's life.<ref>Extensive correspondence in Musee Rodin</ref> After Hallowell's death, her niece, the painter [[Harriet Hallowell]], inherited the Rodins <!-- _?___ --> and after her death, the American heirs could not manage to match their value in order to export them, so they became the property of the French state.<ref>The indefatigable Miss Hallowell, page 8</ref>
===Groot Brittanje===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R38535, Auguste Rodin.jpg|thumb|Rodin in 1914]]
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=822–828}}</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 significant selection of his works to the nation in 1914.
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 |accessdate=15 April 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207201859/http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/chronology-auguste-rodin |archivedate=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. 325-326, 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|publisher=The New York Times|date=27 December 2006|page=E1}}</ref>
[[File:Musée Rodin de Meudon 04.jpg|thumb|Rodin se graf by die Musée Rodin de Meudon]]
Fifty-three years into their relationship, Rodin married Rose Beuret. The wedding was 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|accessdate=14 March 2017}}</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 news|title = Art: Rodin's Death | work = Time | date = 24 March 1923 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,727018,00.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title = Duh!: The Stupid History of the Human Race | first = Bob | last = Fenster | page = 99 | publisher = Andrews McMeel | location = Kansas City | isbn = 0-7407-1002-8 |year = 2000}}</ref>
[[File:Kiss Rodin.jpg|right|thumb|''[[Die Kus (Rodin beeldhouwerk)|Die Kus]]'', 1889]]
[[File:Auguste Rodin signature.jpg|alt=Artist's signature is raised above the surface of a sculpture.|thumb|Rodin se handtekening op ''[[Die Denker]]'']]
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