Camille Claudel: Artist or Muse?

The story of aspiring sculptress Camille Claudel could be called a romantic drama or a tragic story of fame and be-trayal. Obscurity, loneliness, and eventual madness beg to answer the question: Who plagiarized whom? Taken under the wing of the soon-to-become world-renowned artist Auguste Rodin, Claudel was first a pupil, then an assistant, and finally the muse and lover. But the question most often raised was whose artistic hand was creating the artworks that led to Rodin’s international artistic rise to fame? Might the works have been fashioned by Claudel but signed by the master? Find out more about this art world tragedy of deception.