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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 26 | $****** - ****** | Le Baiser, deuxième réduction |
sculpture
59.4 cm (23.38 in)
Bronze
Private Collection, Japan (and sold:
Christie's, New York, November 14, 1996, lot 107)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, illustration of the marble version p. 47Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, illustration of the marble version pl. 71Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Sa vie, son oeuvre, son héritage, Paris, 1962, illustration of the marble version n.p.Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1963, illustration of another cast p. 63Bernard Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, illustration of the marble version pp. 162-63Robert Descharnes & Jean François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, illustration of the marble version pls. 54-55Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, illustration of the marble version pls. 54-55Ludwig Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, illustration of the marble version p. 121John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, illustration of the marble version p. 77Jacques de Caso & Patricia Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1977, illustration of another cast p. 150Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin, collection du musée, Paris, 1987, illustrations of the marble version pp. 185 & 187Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Le Baiser de Rodin/The Kiss by Rodin, Paris, 1995, illustration of another cast fig. 3Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, Paris, 1997, illustration of the terracotta version p. 48Albert 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, illustration of another cast pp. 214-15Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S. 2393, illustrations of other casts pp. 158-63
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme LeBlay under archive number 2012-3973B.
