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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2022 | Le baiser, 3ème réduction | 15 | Christie's | New York | |||
sculpture
39.4 cm (15.5 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); numbered '15' (on the underside); with chaser's mark 'I' (on the rim)
Acquired by the present owner, by circa 2005.
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 2022-6690B .
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1927, p. 47, nos. 91-92 (marble version illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin , Paris, 1947, p. 142, no. 71 (marble version illustrated, pl. 71).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1962, p. 49 (marble version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin , New York, 1963, p. 62 (larger version illustrated, p. 63).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin , London, 1967, pp. 157 and 282, nos. 78-79 (marble version illustrated, pp. 162-163).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin , Lausanne, 1967, pp. 130-131 (marble version illustrated, pls. 54 and 55).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1967, p. 100 (marble version illustrated).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures , London, 1970, p. 121 (marble version illustrated, pl. 49).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia , Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 72, 90 and 108 (marble version illustrated, p. 77).
R.M. Rilke, Rodin , Salt Lake City, 1982, pp. 38 and 104 (another cast illustrated, p. 39).
A.E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin , Stanford, 1985, pp. 78 and 80-81 (another cast illustrated, p. 79, fig. 70).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Mus ée, Paris, 1987, pp. 184 and 258, no. 79 (marble version illustrated, p. 185; detail illustrated, p. 187).
M. Laurent, Rodin , Paris, 1988, p. 104, no. 2 (marble version illustrated, p. 105).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Le Baiser de Rodin , Paris, 1995, p. 20 (another cast illustrated, fig. 2).
J. Vilain, Rodin at the Musée Rodin , London, 1997, p. 39 (marble version illustrated in color).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , Paris, 1997, pp. 48-49 (terracotta version illustrated).
R. Masson and V. Mattiussi, Rodin , Paris, 2004, p. 40 (marble version illustrated in color, p. 41; terracotta version illustrated in color, p. 42).
A. Le Normand-Romain , The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 158-162 (other casts illustrated; marble version illustrated, p. 163, figs. 1-3).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , New York, 2014, pp. 133-134 (terracotta version illustrated in color, p. 132, fig. 121; marble version illustrated, p. 133, figs. 122-123; marble version illustrated again in color, p. 135, fig. 127).
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Le 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); numbered '15' (on the underside); with chaser's mark 'I' (on the rim)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1886; this reduction in 1901; this bronze version cast between 1901 and 1905
