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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 11, 2024 | Bonhams | London, New Bond Street | Impressionist & Modern Art | 110 | $****** - ****** | Baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle | |||
Jun 21, 2006 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art | 221 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser |
sculpture
25.2 x 15.8 cm (9.92 x 6.22 in)
bronze with black-brown patina
signed "Rodin" (on the right side of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark "F. Barbedienne, Fondeur" (on the left side of the base)
Private collection.
Private collection, France (by descent from the above); their sale, Christie"s, London, 21 June 2006, lot 221.
Private collection, UK (acquired at the above sale).
R.M. Rilke, Meister der Skulptur, Auguste Rodin von Rainer Maria Rilke, Constantin Meunier von Karl Scheffler , Berlin, 1900 (marble version illustrated pl. 6).
G. Grappe, Musée Rodin, Catalogue sommaire des Oeuvres d"Auguste Rodin , Paris, 1919 (marble version illustrated pl. 77).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1927, nos. 91 & 92 (marble version illustrated p. 47).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin , Paris, 1934 (marble version illustrated p. 43).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1962 (marble version illustrated p. 49).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin , Paris, 1967, nos. 78 & 79 (marble version illustrated pp. 162 & 163).
R. Descharnes & J-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin , New York, 1967 (marble version illustrated p. 131).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1967 (marble version illustrated pls. 54 & 55).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures , London, 1970, no. 49 (marble version illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia , Philadelphia, 1976 (marble version illustrated p. 77).
A.E. Elsen, In Rodin"s Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making , New York, 1980, nos. 108 & 109 (marble version illustrated).
R.M. Rilke, Rodin , Salt Lake City, 1982 (another cast illustrated p. 39).
A.E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin , Stanford, 1985 (another cast illustrated p. 79).
H. Pinet, Rodin, sculpteur et les photographes de son temps , Paris, 1985, no. 34 (marble version illustrated p. 46).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée , Paris, 1987, no. 79 (marble version illustrated pp. 185 & 187).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Le Baiser de Rodin , Paris, 1995 (another cast illustrated pp. 20 & 21).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , Paris, 1997 (terracotta version illustrated p. 48).
J. Vilain, Rodin at the Musée Rodin , London, 1997 (marble version illustrated p. 39).
R. Butler & S.G. Lindsay, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Systematic Catalogue , Washington, D.C., 2000 (plaster and marble versions illustrated p. 329).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin"s Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University , New York, 2003, no. 49 (another cast illustrated pp. 214 & 215).
R. Masson & V. Mattiussi, Rodin , Paris, 2004 (marble version illustrated p. 41).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , Vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.776 (titled "Le Baiser, réduction no. 2"; another cast illustrated p. 161; marble version illustrated p. 163).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , New York, 2014 (terracotta version illustrated p. 132; marble version illustrated pp. 133 & 135).
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, LONDON AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle
signed "Rodin" (on the right side of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark "F. Barbedienne, Fondeur" (on the left side of the base)
bronze with black-brown patina
25.2 x 15.8cm (9 15/16 x 6 1/4in).
Conceived in 1886 and in this reduced size in 1898, this bronze version cast by the Barbedienne foundry between February and October 1907.
