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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 2024 | Baiser, grand modèle | 5 | Christie's | New York | |||
sculpture
181.9 cm (71.63 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed, dated, numbered, stamped with foundry mark and inscribed "A. Rodin 5/8 FC © by Musée Rodin 2010 Fonderie de Coubertin France" (on the rock)
Musée Rodin, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, May 2010.
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 2010-3196B.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1944, p. 142, no. 71 (marble version illustrated, pl. 71).
H. Martinie, Auguste Rodin , Paris, 1949, no. 30 (marble version illustrated).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin: Sa vie, son oeuvre, son héritage , Paris, 1962, p. 49 (marble version illustrated in situ in Rodin"s studio).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin , New York, 1963, p. 62 (another version illustrated, p. 63).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin , London, 1967, pp. 162-163 and 282, nos. 78-79 (marble version illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin , Lausanne, 1967, p. 130 (marble version illustrated in color, p. 131).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1967, p. 100 (marble version illustrated, pls. 54-55).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures: A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection , London, 1970, p. 121 (marble version illustrated, pl. 49).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin , Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 72, 90 and 108 (marble version illustrated in situ at the Salon of 1908, p. 77).
J. de Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin"s Sculpture , San Francisco, 1977, pp. 149-152 (another version illustrated).
H. Pinet, Rodin sculpteur et les photographes de son temps , Paris, 1985.
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée , Paris, 1987, p. 184, no. 79 (marble version illustrated, p. 185).
F.V. Grunfeld, Rodin, A Biography , New York, 1987, pp. 187-190, 221-222, 260, 262, 275-276, 281-282, 342, 373-374, 400, 457 and 577.
D. Finn and M. Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection , New York, 1991, p. 60 (another version illustrated).
R. Masson and V. Mattiussi, Rodin , Paris, 2004, p. 40 (marble version illustrated, p. 41; terracotta version illustrated, p. 42).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin , Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 159-163, no. S.472 (other bronze and marble versions illustrated, pp.158-159).
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Baiser, grand modèle
signed, dated, numbered, stamped with foundry mark and inscribed "A. Rodin 5/8 FC © by Musée Rodin 2010 Fonderie de Coubertin France" (on the rock)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 71 5/8 in. (181 cm.)
Width: 43 7/8 in. (111.5 cm.)
Depth: 44 3/8 in. (113 cm.)
Conceived circa 1882; this size in 1889 and cast in 2010
