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...sculptures ran the range from the realism of Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol to the tortured what-is-its of contemporary abstractionists. Among the standouts: Rodin's cape-shrouded, beetle-browed Balzac, Maillol's hippy, sprawling nude, The River, and Ossip Zadkine's roughhewn Statue for a Garden. Such statues were easy to look at. Old-fashioned visitors to Middelheim were not so sure about some of the others...
...handsome young sculptress. Suddenly the poet's constitutional melancholy grew acute. He had discovered that he could not keep a wife and a muse at the same time. The wife graciously bowed out; Rilke went off to Paris, where in 1905 he became private secretary to Sculptor Auguste Rodin...
...Whistler Regrets. Even time stood still for father Sitwell. In the late '20s he suggested throwing an "Artists' Party," was vexed to hear that all his intended guests (Sargent, Rodin, Renoir, Whistler, Degas) were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn...
Carl Milles accepted Rodin's offer, and he traveled a long way in the master's steps. In time, his own statues were bursting out of bushes, rising from fountains, standing as monuments in city parks and squares all over Europe. Academies honored him; King Gustav V of Sweden called him Carl...
...assistant to a coffin maker. But he still plugged away at his sculpture. One day an old man with a flowing beard called on him to congratulate him on a statue he had seen. "I have come to offer my assistance. My name," the old man added, "is Rodin...