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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 4, 2014 | Sotheby's | Paris | Art Impressionniste et Moderne | 6 | $****** - ****** | Le Baiser, 3ème Réduction |
sculpture
39.7 cm (15.63 in)
bronze
signed Rodin, bears the foundry mark F. Barbedienne, Fondeur, numbered 12 and inscribed K
Emile Cheneaux de Leyritz, Paris (acquired circa 1950). Acquired circa the 1960s
Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, Londres, 1917, un autre exemplaire reproduit pl. 6. Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musee Rodin, Paris, 1927, nos. 91-92, p. 47, la version en marbre reproduite no. 91. Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musee Rodin, Paris, 1944, la version en marbre reproduite no. 71. Georges Grappe, Le Musee Rodin, Paris, 1947, la version en marbre reproduite pl. 71. Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, sa vie, son oeuvre, son heritage, Paris, 1962, la version en marbre reproduite p. 49. Albert Edward Elsen, Rodin (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1963, larger version illustrated p. 63. Ionel Jianou & Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, the marble version illustrated pls. 54-55. Ludwig Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, Londres, 1970, no. 49, the marble version illustrated p. 121. John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphie, 1976, the marble version illustrated p. 77. Jacques de Caso & Patricia B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture (exhibition catalogue ), The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1977, another example illustrated pp. 148 & 150. Albert Edward Elsen, In Rodin's Studio, A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Ithaca, 1980, the marble version illustrated on the cover. Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin : Collection du Musee Rodin, Paris, 1987, no. 79, the marble version illustrated p. 185. Frederic V. Grunfeld, Rodin, A Biography, New York, 1987, another example illustrated pp. 187-190, 221-222, 260, 262, 275-276, 281-282, 342, 373-374, 400, 457 & 577. David Finn & Marie Busco, Rodin and his Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, another example illustrated pp. 60-61. Albert Edward Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 49, another example illustrated pp. 214-215. Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musee Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, another example illustrated p. 161
