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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 8 | $****** - ****** | BAISER, DEUXIÈME RÉDUCTION |
sculpture
59.4 cm (23.39 in)
bronze
inscribed Rodin, with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne, numbered 14 on the underside
Private Collection, Japan
Sale: Christie's, New York, 14th November 1996, lot 107
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Leipzig, 1922, illustration of another example pl. 18
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 114, illustration of a marble version p. 57
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 71, illustration of a larger marble version
Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, illustration of a marble version pl. 71
Marcel Aubert, Rodin Sculptures, Paris, 1952, illustration of a marble version p. 39
Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1962, illustration of a marble version p. 49
Bernard Champigneuelle, Rodin, London, 1967, nos. 78-79, illustrations of a marble version pp. 162-163
Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, illustration of a larger marble version p. 131
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, edition catalogued p. 100, illustrations of a marble version pls. 54-55
Ludwig Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, no. 49, illustration of a marble version p. 121
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, illustration of a marble version p. 77
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Oxford, 1980, illustration of a marble version pls. 108 & 109 and on the dust jacket
Hélène Pinet, Rodin, sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 34, illustration of a marble version p. 46
Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée, Paris, 1987, no. 79, illustration of a marble version p. 185
Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1987, illustration of another cast p. 585
David Finn & Marie Busco, Rodin and his Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, illustrations of another cast pp. 60-61
Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, New Haven & London, 1993, no. 99, illustration of a plaster p. 229
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Centre for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 49, illustrations of another cast pp. 214-215
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, illustration of another cast p. 162 (titled The Kiss, Reduction no. 4)
inscribed Rodin, with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne, fondeur; numbered 14 on the underside
bronze
height: 59.4cm.
23 3/8 in.
Conceived in 1886 in a larger size, this reduced size was executed in 1904. The present example was cast in May 1914.
