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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2007 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art - Day Sale | 461 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser | |||
Nov 28, 1994 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture - Part | 10 | Estimates not disclosed | Le Baiser |
sculpture
39.7 cm (15.63 in)
bronze with brown patina
signed "Rodin" (on the top of the rock); inscribed with foundry mark "F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur" (on the left side of the rock); with the letters "VL" (on the inside)
Anonymous sale, Christie"s, London, 28 November 1994, lot 10.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l"oeuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2025-7848B.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1927, no. 71, p. 142 (marble version illustrated n.p.).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin , Paris, 1944, no. 71, p. 142 (marble version illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin , Paris, 1947, p. 142 (marble version illustrated pl. 71).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Sa vie, son œuvre, son héritage , Paris, 1962 (marble version illustrated p. 49).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin , New York, 1963, p. 62 (larger bronze version illustrated p. 63).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin , London, 1967, nos. 78-79, p. 282 (marble version illustrated pp. 162-163).
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin , London & Melbourne, 1967, pp. 130-131 (marble version illustrated).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1967, p. 100 (marble version illustrated pls. 54-55) .
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures , London, 1970, p. 121 (marble version illustrated pl. 49).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin , Philadelphia, 1976, no. 151, pp. 72, 77, 90 & 108 (marble version illustrated p. 77).
J. de Caso & P. Sanders, Rodin"s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection , San Francisco, 1977, no. 22, pp. 149-153 (another version illustrated pp. 148 & 150).
R.M. Rilke, Rodin , Salt Lake City, 1982, p. 38 (illustrated p. 39).
A.E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by August Rodin , Stanford, 1985, pp. 78-81 (illustrated fig. 70, p. 79).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin, Collection du musée , Paris, 1987, no. 79, pp. 184-187 & 258 (marble version illustrated pp. 185 & 187).
M. Laurent, Rodin , Paris, 1988, p. 104 (marble version illustrated fig. 2, p. 105).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Le baiser de Rodin , Paris, 1995, nos. 21 & 34, p. 78 & 90 (other versions illustrated fig. 2, p. 20, fig. 7, n.p.).
M. Girault, " Rodin and His Own Work" in Museart (hors-série), Paris, 1998, pp. 40-41 (marble version illustrated p. 43).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , Paris, 1997, p. 49 (terracotta version illustrated p. 48).
J. Vilain, Rodin at the Musée Rodin , Paris, 1999, p. 39 (marble version illustrated).
R. Butler, "Auguste Rodin," in European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue , 2000, pp. 326-330.
A. Pingeot, "Rodin au Musée du Luxembourg," in La Revue du Musée d"Orsay , Autumn 2000, no. 11, pp. 67-70 & 74.
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, pp. 214-215 (smaller bronze version illustrated fig. 167).
R. Masson & V. Mattiusi, Rodin , Paris, 2004, pp. 40-42 (marble version illustrated p. 41; terracotta version illustrated p. 42).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S. 2061, pp. 161 (another cast illustrated; other versions illustrated pp. 158-163).
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Baiser, 3ème réduction
signed "Rodin" (on the top of the rock); inscribed with foundry mark "F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur" (on the left side of the rock); with the letters "VL" (on the inside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1886, this reduction in 1901; this bronze version cast by Leblanc-Barbedienne circa 1912
