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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 18, 2013 | Bonhams | London | Impressionist and Modern Art | 2 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle |
sculpture
25.2 cm (9.92 in)
bronze with brown patina
signed 'Rodin' (on the right side of the base), inscribed with foundry mark 'F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur' (on the left side of the base), and workshop assistant stamps 'S' (twice) and 'VL' (to the interior)
Private collection, Poland (circa 1930).~
Thence by descent to the present owner.~
R.M. Rilke, Auguste Rodin, London, 1917 (another cast illustrated pl. 6).~G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, nos. 91-92, p. 47 (plaster version illustrated no. 91).~G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 71 (marble version illustrated).~G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947 (marble version illustrated).~C. Goldscheider, Rodin, sa vie, son oeuvre, son héritage, Paris, 1962 (marble version illustrated p. 49).~A.E. Elsen, Rodin, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1963, (larger bronze version illustrated p. 63).~B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, nos. 78-79 (marble version illustrated pp. 162-163).~R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967 (marble version illustrated p. 131).~I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967 (marble version illustrated pls. 54-55).~L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, no. 49 (marble version illustrated p. 121).~J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976 (marble version illustrated p. 77).~J. de Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin Sculpture, exh. cat., The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1977 (another cast illustrated pp. 148 & 150).~A.E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980 (marble version illustrated on the cover).~H. Pinet, Rodin, sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 34 (marble version illustrated p. 46).~N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1987, 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.~P. Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1987 (another cast illustrated p. 585).~D. Finn and M. Busco, Rodin and his Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991 (another cast illustrated pp. 60-61).~A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 49 (another cast illustrated pp. 214-215).~A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, (another cast illustrated p. 161). ~~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 archive number 2013-4111B.
