Auguste Rodin
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
The Museum of Modern Art and the Legion of Honor co-sponsor this belated tribute to Rodin, which was shown in New York during the summer. San Francisco extends the New York exhibit with the addition of its famous Spreckles Collection, some of which was loaned for the East Coast showing. There are now more than 100 works displayed, and while the extension does increase the range as well as the numbers of the New York exhibition, some omissions are to be noted, most significant of which is the big bronze of “The Burghers of Calais.”
When Rodin died in 1917, aged 77, he was probably the most famous