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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Day Auction | 217 | $****** - ****** | Le Baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle | |||
Jun 20, 2006 | Drouot Estimations | Paris | Estampes, Dessins & Tableaux Modernes | 140 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser | |||
May 7, 2003 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art - Part II | 116 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser | |||
Apr 23, 2003 | Rabourdin & Choppin de Janvry | Paris | Paintings & Sculptures of 19th & 20th Centuries | 53 | $****** - ****** | Baiser | |||
Dec 7, 1999 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Post Impressionist Art | 152 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser | |||
Nov 11, 1999 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art (part II) | 232 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser | |||
Jun 24, 1998 | Ferri et Associes | Paris | 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 220 | Estimates not disclosed | Le baiser | |||
Nov 14, 1996 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture (Part II) | 119 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser | |||
Oct 9, 1996 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art | 13 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser | |||
Sep 28, 1994 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 8 | Estimates not disclosed | Le Baiser | |||
Apr 2, 1994 | Deauville Auction | Deauville | 19th Century & Modern Oil Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture | 117 | Estimates not disclosed | Le baiser |
sculpture
25.4 cm (10 in)
bronze
inscribed Rodin and with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne, Fondeur ; variously stamped (on the interior)
Private Collection, France
Étude Le Houelleur-Ruellan, Deauville, 2 April 1994, lot 117
Private Collection, France (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby"s, New York, 28 September 1994, lot 8 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)
M. Munir Abu-Haidar, New York
Christie"s, New York, 11 July 2001, lot 155
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, Maryland
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1927, p. 47, illustration of the marble version
Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin , Paris, 1947, pl. 71, illustration of the marble version
Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Sa vie, son oeuvre, son héritage , Paris, 1962, illustration of the marble version
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin , London, 1963, p. 63, illustration of another cast
Bernard Champigneulle, Rodin , London, 1967, pp. 162-63, illustration of the marble version
Robert Descharnes and Jean François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin , Lausanne, 1967, pls. 54-55, illustration of the marble version
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1967, pls. 54-55, illustration of the marble version
Ludwig Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures , London, 1970, p. 121, illustration of the marble version
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin , Philadelphia, 1976, p. 77, illustration of the marble version
Jacques de Caso and Patricia Sanders, Rodin"s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection , San Francisco, 1977, p. 150, illustration of another cast
Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin, collection du musée , Paris, 1987, pp. 185 and 187, illustrations of the marble version
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Le Baiser de Rodin/The Kiss by Rodin , Paris, 1995, n.p., illustration of another cast
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. 1, Paris, 1997, p. 48, illustration of the terracotta version
Property from the Collection of Myrtle Katzen, Washington D.C.
Auguste Rodin
1840 - 1917
Le Baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle
inscribed Rodin and with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne, Fondeur ; variously stamped (on the interior)
bronze
height: 10 in. 25.4 cm.
Conceived in 1886; this reduction conceived in 1898; this example cast between 1900-05.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l"œuvre sculpté d"Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2001-7B.
